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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 58

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Then a great fire was again made, and the mother said: ‘Just sit there, you children, and when you are tired you may sleep a little; we are going into the forest to cut wood, and in the evening when we are done, we will come and fetch you away.’

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**Who acts:** mother, you, we · **What happens:** make, say, sit, child, be, sleep · **To what, where:** great fire, little, forest, wood, we, you · **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 (mother, 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:pg2591:20:58
# text = Then a great fire was again made, and the mother said: ‘Just sit there, you children, and when you are tired you may sleep a little; we are going into the forest to cut wood, and in the evening when we are done, we will come and fetch you away.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	26	mark	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	advcl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
33	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
41	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
47	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
48	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
52	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	parataxis	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	conj	_	_
57	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	_
58	away	away	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | a great fire |  |  | then; again |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sit** | infinitive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **child** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **sleep** | may | you | a little |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme |
| 7 | **go** | present · progressive | we |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **cut** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | wood |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product |
| 9 | **do** | present · passive |  | we |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 10 | **come** | future | we |  |  |  | evening |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **fetch away** | infinitive | we *not said here* | you |  |  |  | away *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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