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title: Creep in," said the witch, "and see if it is hot enough, and then we… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Creep in," said the witch, "and see if it is hot enough, and then we will put in the bread"; but she intended when Grethel got in to shut up the oven and let her bake, so that she might eat her as well as Hansel. Who acts: you, flame, we, witch. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 88

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Creep in," said the witch, "and see if it is hot enough, and then we will put in the bread"; but she intended when Grethel got in to shut up the oven and let her bake, so that she might eat her as well as Hansel.

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**Who acts:** you, flame, we, witch, Grethel · **What happens:** creep in, say, see, be, put, intend · **To what, where:** witch, bread, oven, woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, flame, we, 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:pg11027:8:88
# text = Creep in," said the witch, "and see if it is hot enough, and then we will put in the bread"; but she intended when Grethel got in to shut up the oven and let her bake, so that she might eat her as well as Hansel.
1	Creep	creep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
31	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
32	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
34	in	in	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
42	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	49	mark	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	fixed	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	_
50	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	54	cc	_	_
52	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	51	fixed	_	_
53	as	as	ADP	IN	_	51	fixed	_	_
54	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep in** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the witch |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent witch=Topic |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | flame |  |  |  |  | enough, hot *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **put** | future | we |  |  | the bread | then |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bread=Destination |
| 6 | **intend** *in a quote* | past | witch |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **get in** *in a quote* | past | Grethel |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **shut up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Grethel *not said here* | the oven |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oven=Patient |
| 9 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Grethel *not said here* | witch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **bake** *in a quote* | infinitive | witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 11 | **eat** *in a quote* | might | witch | woman |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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