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title: And once Gretel was inside, she intended to shut the oven and let he… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And once Gretel was inside, she intended to shut the oven and let her bake in it, and then she would eat her, too. Who acts: Gretel, witch. 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 110

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And once Gretel was inside, she intended to shut the oven and let her bake in it, and then she would eat her, too.

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**Who acts:** Gretel, witch · **What happens:** be, intend, shut, let, bake, eat · **To what, where:** oven, witch, woman

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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, 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:pg2591:20:110
# text = And once Gretel was inside, she intended to shut the oven and let her bake in it, and then she would eat her, too.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | Gretel |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **intend** | past | witch |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **shut** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | witch *not said here* | the oven |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent oven=Patient |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | witch *not said here* | witch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bake** | infinitive | witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in oven | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in it=Instrument |
| 6 | **eat** | would | witch | woman |  |  | then |  | 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:** «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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