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title: Early in the morning, Gretel had to go out and hang up the cauldron… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Early in the morning, Gretel had to go out and hang up the cauldron with the water, and light the fire. Who acts: Gretel. 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 106

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Early in the morning, Gretel had to go out and hang up the cauldron with the water, and light the fire.

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**Who acts:** Gretel · **What happens:** have, go out, hang up, light · **To what, where:** cauldron, fire

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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 (Gretel), 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:pg2591:20:106
# text = Early in the morning, Gretel had to go out and hang up the cauldron with the water, and light the fire.
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	light	light	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Gretel |  |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go out** | to-infinitive | Gretel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hang up** | infinitive | Gretel *not said here* | the cauldron |  |  |  | with the water | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cauldron=Patient with water=Instrument |
| 4 | **light** | infinitive | Gretel *not said here* | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |

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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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