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title: When day dawned, but before the sun had risen, the woman came and aw… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When day dawned, but before the sun had risen, the woman came and awoke the two children, saying: ‘Get up, you sluggards! we are going into the forest to fetch wood.’ Who acts: sun, woman, you, we. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel, with its dependency tree and th
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 18

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When day dawned, but before the sun had risen, the woman came and awoke the two children, saying: ‘Get up, you sluggards! we are going into the forest to fetch wood.’

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**Who acts:** sun, woman, you, we · **What happens:** dawn, rise, come, awake, say, get up · **To what, where:** two children, forest, wood · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sun, woman, you, we), 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:pg2591:20:18
# text = When day dawned, but before the sun had risen, the woman came and awoke the two children, saying: ‘Get up, you sluggards! we are going into the forest to fetch wood.’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	dawned	dawn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	sluggards	sluggard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl:relcl	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
38	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dawn** | participle |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rise** | past · perfect | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | the woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **awake** | past | the woman *not said here* | the two children |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **get up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **sluggard** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **go** | present · progressive | we |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | wood |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=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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