--- title: They walked the whole night and all the next day too from morning ti… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They walked the whole night and all the next day too from morning till evening, but they did not get out of the forest, and were very hungry, for they had nothing to eat but two or three berries, which grew on the ground. Who acts: Hansel. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/64/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [Hansel and Gretel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/) / 64 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 64 They walked the whole night and all the next day too from morning till evening, but they did not get out of the forest, and were very hungry, for they had nothing to eat but two or three berries, which grew on the ground. **Who acts:** Hansel · **What happens:** walk, not get out, be, have, eat, grow · **To what, where:** forest, nothing, ground 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. **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:pg2591:20:64 # text = They walked the whole night and all the next day too from morning till evening, but they did not get out of the forest, and were very hungry, for they had nothing to eat but two or three berries, which grew on the ground. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 7 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 10 det:predet _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 too too ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 till till ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 22 out out ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 very very ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 35 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 34 obj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl _ _ 38 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 40 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 conj _ _ 42 berries berry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 45 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 46 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | Hansel | | | | morning; night | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **get out** | past · do-support | Hansel | the forest | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | Hansel *not said here* | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | Hansel | nothing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Hansel *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **grow** | past | | | | the ground | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/65/) - ↑ back to [Hansel and Gretel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/)