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title: Let Hansel be fat or lean, tomorrow I will kill him, and cook him.’ — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Let Hansel be fat or lean, tomorrow I will kill him, and cook him.’ Who acts: you, Hansel, tomorrow. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 101

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Let Hansel be fat or lean, tomorrow I will kill him, and cook him.’

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**Who acts:** you, Hansel, tomorrow · **What happens:** let, be, kill, cook · **To what, where:** Hansel, Gretel

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Hansel, tomorrow), 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:pg2591:20:101
# text = Let Hansel be fat or lean, tomorrow I will kill him, and cook him.’
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	cook	cook	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | Hansel |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hansel=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | Hansel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fat *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Hansel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **kill** | future | tomorrow | Gretel |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **cook** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Gretel |  |  |  |  | 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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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