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title: The old woman, however, nodded her head, and said: ‘Oh, you dear chi… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The old woman, however, nodded her head, and said: ‘Oh, you dear children, who has brought you here? do come in, and stay with me. Who acts: old woman, 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 81

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The old woman, however, nodded her head, and said: ‘Oh, you dear children, who has brought you here? do come in, and stay with me.

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**Who acts:** old woman, you · **What happens:** nod, say, child, bring, come in, stay · **To what, where:** head, dear children · **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 (old woman, 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:pg2591:20:81
# text = The old woman, however, nodded her head, and said: ‘Oh, you dear children, who has brought you here? do come in, and stay with me.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	nsubj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
27	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nod** | past | the old woman | woman's head |  |  |  | however *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **child** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | present · perfect · passive |  | dear children |  | here |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination you=Theme |
| 5 | **come in** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **stay** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location |

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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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