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title: ‘No,’ replied Gretel, ‘that will be too heavy for the little duck; s… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘No,’ replied Gretel, ‘that will be too heavy for the little duck; she shall take us across, one after the other.’ Who acts: that, 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 130

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‘No,’ replied Gretel, ‘that will be too heavy for the little duck; she shall take us across, one after the other.’

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**Who acts:** that, duck · **What happens:** reply, be, take · **To what, where:** Gretel, us

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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 (that, 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:pg2591:20:130
# text = ‘No,’ replied Gretel, ‘that will be too heavy for the little duck; she shall take us across, one after the other.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	‘	‘	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
22	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	across	across	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | Gretel |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gretel=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | future | that |  |  |  |  | for the little duck; heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | shall | duck | us |  |  |  | across *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Theme one=Destination |

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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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