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title: When four weeks had gone by, and Hansel still remained thin, she was… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When four weeks had gone by, and Hansel still remained thin, she was seized with impatience and would not wait any longer. Who acts: four weeks, 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 99

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When four weeks had gone by, and Hansel still remained thin, she was seized with impatience and would not wait any longer.

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**Who acts:** four weeks, you · **What happens:** go by, hansel, remain, seize, not wait · **To what, where:** woman

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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 (four weeks, 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:pg2591:20:99
# text = When four weeks had gone by, and Hansel still remained thin, she was seized with impatience and would not wait any longer.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Hansel	hansel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
12	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	impatience	impatience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	any	any	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go by** | past · perfect | four weeks |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hansel** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **remain** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  | still | thin *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **seize** | past · passive |  | woman |  |  |  | with impatience | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **wait** | would |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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