--- title: First, we will bake, however," said the old woman; "I have already h… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: First, we will bake, however," said the old woman; "I have already heated the oven and kneaded the dough"; and so saying, she pushed poor Grethel up to the oven, out of which the flames were burning fiercely. " Who acts: we, old woman, I, woman. 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" **Who acts:** we, old woman, I, woman, flames · **What happens:** bake, say, heat, knead, push, burn · **To what, where:** oven, dough, poor Grethel · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (we, old woman, I, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:8:87 # text = First, we will bake, however," said the old woman; "I have already heated the oven and kneaded the dough"; and so saying, she pushed poor Grethel up to the oven, out of which the flames were burning fiercely. " 1 First first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 bake bake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 however however ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 already already ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 heated heat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 oven oven NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 kneaded knead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 dough dough NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 34 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 Grethel Grethel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 up up ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 oven oven NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 41 out out ADP IN _ 47 mark _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 47 obl _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 flames flame NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj _ _ 46 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 burning burn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 48 fiercely fiercely ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bake** | future | we | | | | | first, however *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the old woman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **heat** | present · perfect | I | the oven | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent oven=Patient | | 4 | **knead** | past | I *not said here* | the dough | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent dough=Material | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | the old woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **push** *in a quote* | past | woman | poor Grethel | | the oven | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent grethel=Theme up oven=Trajectory | | 7 | **burn** *in a quote* | past · progressive | the flames | | | | | fiercely *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/88/) - ↑ back to [Hansel and Grethel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/)