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title: ‘Little duck, little duck, dost thou see, Hansel and Gretel are wait… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Little duck, little duck, dost thou see, Hansel and Gretel are waiting for thee? Who acts: Little duck. 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 127

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‘Little duck, little duck, dost thou see, Hansel and Gretel are waiting for thee?

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**Who acts:** Little duck · **What happens:** do, see, hansel, wait · **To what, where:** thou

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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 (Little duck), 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:pg2591:20:127
# text = ‘Little duck, little duck, dost thou see, Hansel and Gretel are waiting for thee?
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dost	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obj	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Hansel	hansel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Little duck and little duck and Gretel *not said here* | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | Little duck and little duck and Gretel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hansel** | infinitive | Little duck and little duck and Gretel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wait** | present · progressive | Little duck and little duck and Gretel |  |  |  |  | for thee | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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