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title: Then Gretel gave her a push that drove her far into it, and shut the… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Gretel gave her a push that drove her far into it, and shut the iron door, and fastened the bolt. Who acts: Gretel, push. 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 114

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Then Gretel gave her a push that drove her far into it, and shut the iron door, and fastened the bolt.

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**Who acts:** Gretel, push · **What happens:** give, drive, shut, fasten · **To what, where:** push, woman, iron door, bolt

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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, push), 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:pg2591:20:114
# text = Then Gretel gave her a push that drove her far into it, and shut the iron door, and fastened the bolt.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Gretel	Gretel	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	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bolt	bolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	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 | Gretel | a push | woman |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient push=Theme |
| 2 | **drive** | past | a push | woman |  |  |  | far *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **shut** | past | Gretel *not said here* | the iron door |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 4 | **fasten** | past | Gretel *not said here* | the bolt |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bolt=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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