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title: Hansel stooped and stuffed the little pocket of his coat with as man… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Hansel stooped and stuffed the little pocket of his coat with as many as he could get in. Who acts: Hansel, moon. 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 16

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Hansel stooped and stuffed the little pocket of his coat with as many as he could get in.

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**Who acts:** Hansel, moon · **What happens:** stoop, stuff, get in · **To what, where:** little pocket

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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 (Hansel, moon), 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:pg2591:20:16
# text = Hansel stooped and stuffed the little pocket of his coat with as many as he could get in.
1	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop** | past | Hansel |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stuff** | past | Hansel *not said here* | the little pocket of moon's coat |  |  |  | with many | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent pocket=Destination with many=Theme |
| 3 | **get in** | could | moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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