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title: His father said: ‘Hansel, what are you looking at there and staying… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His father said: ‘Hansel, what are you looking at there and staying behind for? Who acts: father, you. 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 23

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His father said: ‘Hansel, what are you looking at there and staying behind for?

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**Who acts:** father, you · **What happens:** say, hansel, look, stay · **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 (father, you), 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:pg2591:20:23
# text = His father said: ‘Hansel, what are you looking at there and staying behind for?
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Hansel	hansel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
16	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Gretel's father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hansel** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at there=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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