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title: Gretel emptied her pinafore until pearls and precious stones ran abo… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Gretel emptied her pinafore until pearls and precious stones ran about the room, and Hansel threw one handful after another out of his pocket to add to them. Who acts: Gretel, pearls, Hansel. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 134

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Gretel emptied her pinafore until pearls and precious stones ran about the room, and Hansel threw one handful after another out of his pocket to add to them.

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**Who acts:** Gretel, pearls, Hansel · **What happens:** empty, run, throw, add · **To what, where:** pinafore, one handful, pocket, Hansel

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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, pearls, Hansel), 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:pg2591:20:134
# text = Gretel emptied her pinafore until pearls and precious stones ran about the room, and Hansel threw one handful after another out of his pocket to add to them.
1	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	emptied	empty	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	pinafore	pinafore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	obl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **empty** | past | Gretel | woman's pinafore |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pinafore=Source |
| 2 | **run** | past | pearls and precious stones |  |  |  |  | about the room | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about room=Trajectory |
| 3 | **throw** | past | Hansel | one handful |  | Gretel's pocket | after another |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent handful=Theme out pocket=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Hansel *not said here* |  | Hansel |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to they=Co-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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