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title: When four weeks had passed, and Hansel still kept quite lean, she lo… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: When four weeks had passed, and Hansel still kept quite lean, she lost all her patience, and would not wait any longer. " Who acts: Hansel, witch. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 80

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When four weeks had passed, and Hansel still kept quite lean, she lost all her patience, and would not wait any longer. "

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**Who acts:** Hansel, witch · **What happens:** pass, keep, lose, not wait · **To what, where:** four weeks, patience

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hansel, witch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:8:80
# text = When four weeks had passed, and Hansel still kept quite lean, she lost all her patience, and would not wait any longer. "
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	any	any	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive |  | four weeks |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 2 | **keep** | past | Hansel |  |  |  | still | lean *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lose** | past | witch | witch's patience |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **wait** | would |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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