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title: ‘I’ll tell you what, husband,’ answered the woman, ‘early tomorrow m… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I’ll tell you what, husband,’ answered the woman, ‘early tomorrow morning we will take the children out into the forest to where it is the thickest; there we will light a fire for them, and give each of them one more piece of bread, and then we will go to our work and leave them alone. Who acts: I,
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 6

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‘I’ll tell you what, husband,’ answered the woman, ‘early tomorrow morning we will take the children out into the forest to where it is the thickest; there we will light a fire for them, and give each of them one more piece of bread, and then we will go to our work and leave them alone.

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**Who acts:** I, we, forest, each, our · **What happens:** tell, answer, take out, be, light, give · **To what, where:** husband, you, woman, children, forest, fire · **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 (I, we, forest, each), 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:pg2591:20:6
# text = ‘I’ll tell you what, husband,’ answered the woman, ‘early tomorrow morning we will take the children out into the forest to where it is the thickest; there we will light a fire for them, and give each of them one more piece of bread, and then we will go to our work and leave them alone.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	thickest	thick	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	38	expl	_	_
36	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	light	light	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
46	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	51	nsubj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nmod	_	_
49	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	nummod	_	_
50	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	51	amod	_	_
51	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
56	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	59	advmod	_	_
57	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
58	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
60	to	to	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	conj	_	_
65	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	obj	_	_
66	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | I | husband | you |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the woman |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take out** | future | we | the children |  | the forest | morning | out *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | forest |  |  |  |  | thick *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **light** | future | we | a fire |  | there |  | for children *= child* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fire=Product for they=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **give** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **piece** |  | each |  |  |  |  | of bread | tree rules |
| 8 | **go** | future | we |  |  | our work | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **leave** | infinitive | we *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 10 | **work** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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