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title: Then Grethel gave her a push, so that she fell right in, and then sh… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Grethel gave her a push, so that she fell right in, and then shutting the iron door she bolted it! Who acts: Grethel, goose. 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 92

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Then Grethel gave her a push, so that she fell right in, and then shutting the iron door she bolted it!

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**Who acts:** Grethel, goose · **What happens:** give, fall, shut, bolt · **To what, where:** push, goose, iron door, door

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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 (Grethel, goose), 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:pg11027:8:92
# text = Then Grethel gave her a push, so that she fell right in, and then shutting the iron door she bolted it!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	right	right	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	shutting	shut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bolted	bolt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Grethel | a push | goose |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient push=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | goose |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shut** | gerund | goose *not said here* | the iron door |  |  | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 4 | **bolt** | past | goose | door |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent it=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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