--- title: Hansel, however, stretched out a little bone to her, and the old wom… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Hansel, however, stretched out a little bone to her, and the old woman, who had dim eyes, could not see it, and thought it was Hansel’s finger, and was astonished that there was no way of fattening him. Who acts: you, old woman, bone, way. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old woman, bone, way), 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:pg2591:20:98 # text = Hansel, however, stretched out a little bone to her, and the old woman, who had dim eyes, could not see it, and thought it was Hansel’s finger, and was astonished that there was no way of fattening him. 1 Hansel hansel VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 however however ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 conj _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 dim dim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 32 Hansel Hansel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’s 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 astonished astonished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 ccomp _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 41 expl _ _ 41 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 ccomp _ _ 42 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 43 det _ _ 43 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 44 of of SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 45 fattening fatten VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 43 acl _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hansel** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stretch out** | participle | you *not said here* | a little bone | | | | to woman; however *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent bone=Patient to she=Result | | 3 | **have** | past | the old woman | dim eyes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 4 | **not** **see** | could | the old woman | bone | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | past | bone | Hansel's finger | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | past | | | | | | astonished *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **be** | past | no way | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **fatten** | gerund | no way *not said here* | Gretel | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | 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 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/99/) - ↑ back to [Hansel and Gretel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/)