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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 97

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These are better than pebbles," said Hansel, putting as many into his pocket as it would hold; while Grethel thought, "I will take some too," and filled her apron full. "

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**Who acts:** These, Hansel, pocket, Grethel, I · **What happens:** be, say, put, hold, think, take · **To what, where:** many, pocket, some, apron · **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 (These, Hansel, pocket, Grethel), 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:pg11027:8:97
# text = These are better than pebbles," said Hansel, putting as many into his pocket as it would hold; while Grethel thought, "I will take some too," and filled her apron full. "
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	ccomp	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
30	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	obj	_	_
31	too	too	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | These |  |  |  |  | than pebbles; good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Hansel |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **put** *in a quote* | gerund | Hansel *not said here* | many |  | Hansel's pocket |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent many=Goal |
| 4 | **hold** *in a quote* | would | pocket |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | Grethel |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **take** | future | I | some |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 7 | **fill** *in a quote* | past | Grethel *not said here* | witch's apron |  |  |  | full *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent apron=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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