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title: Gretel, however, ran like lightning to Hansel, opened his little sta… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Gretel, however, ran like lightning to Hansel, opened his little stable, and cried: ‘Hansel, we are saved! 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 116

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Gretel, however, ran like lightning to Hansel, opened his little stable, and cried: ‘Hansel, we are saved!

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**Who acts:** Gretel · **What happens:** run, hansel, open, cry, save · **To what, where:** little stable, Hansel, we

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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:pg2591:20:116
# text = Gretel, however, ran like lightning to Hansel, opened his little stable, and cried: ‘Hansel, we are saved!
1	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	Hansel	hansel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Gretel |  |  |  |  | like lightning; however *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hansel** | to-infinitive | Gretel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **open** | past | Gretel *not said here* | Gretel's little stable |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stable=Theme |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Gretel *not said here* | Hansel |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **save** | present · passive |  | we |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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