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title: Grethel," she called out in a passion, "get some water quickly; be H… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Grethel," she called out in a passion, "get some water quickly; be Hansel fat or lean, this morning I will kill and cook him." Who acts: I. 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 81

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Grethel," she called out in a passion, "get some water quickly; be Hansel fat or lean, this morning I will kill and cook him."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** call out, get, be, lean, kill, cook · **To what, where:** Grethel, passion, water, Hansel fat

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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 (I), 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:pg11027:8:81
# text = Grethel," she called out in a passion, "get some water quickly; be Hansel fat or lean, this morning I will kill and cook him."
1	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	Hansel	hansel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call out** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | participle · passive |  | Grethel |  | a passion |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive |  | some water |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive |  | Hansel fat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lean** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **kill** | future | I | Hansel fat *not said here* |  |  | morning |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme |
| 6 | **cook** | infinitive | I *not said here* | Grethel |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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