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title: Not long afterwards, there was once more great dearth throughout the… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Not long afterwards, there was once more great dearth throughout the land, and the children heard their mother saying at night to their father: ‘Everything is eaten again, we have one half loaf left, and that is the end. Who acts: great dearth, children, mother, we. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tale
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 42

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Not long afterwards, there was once more great dearth throughout the land, and the children heard their mother saying at night to their father: ‘Everything is eaten again, we have one half loaf left, and that is the end.

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**Who acts:** great dearth, children, mother, we, that · **What happens:** be, hear, say, eat, have, leave · **To what, where:** land, mother, father, Everything, one half loaf, end · **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 (great dearth, children, mother, 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:pg2591:20:42
# text = Not long afterwards, there was once more great dearth throughout the land, and the children heard their mother saying at night to their father: ‘Everything is eaten again, we have one half loaf left, and that is the end.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dearth	dearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
11	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
37	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	38	compound	_	_
38	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	45	nsubj	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | great dearth |  |  | the land; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme throughout land=Location |
| 2 | **hear** | past | the children | children's mother |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | children's mother *not said here* |  | children's father |  | night |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient |
| 4 | **eat** | present · passive |  | Everything |  |  | again |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | present | we | one half loaf |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Patient |
| 6 | **leave** | participle |  | one half loaf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is a** | present | that | the end |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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