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title: When they had walked a short time, Hansel stood still and peeped bac… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they had walked a short time, Hansel stood still and peeped back at the house, and did so again and again. Who acts: Hansel. 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 22

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When they had walked a short time, Hansel stood still and peeped back at the house, and did so again and again.

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**Who acts:** Hansel · **What happens:** walk, stand, peep back, do

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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), 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:pg2591:20:22
# text = When they had walked a short time, Hansel stood still and peeped back at the house, and did so again and again.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · perfect | Hansel |  |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Hansel |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **peep back** | past | Hansel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the house | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at house=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past | Hansel *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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