--- title: There was once a cook named Gretel, who wore shoes with red heels, a… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There was once a cook named Gretel, who wore shoes with red heels, and when she walked out with them on, she turned herself this way and that, was quite happy and thought: ‘You certainly are a pretty girl!’ Who acts: cook, Gretel, that, You. 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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 (cook, Gretel, that, You), 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:pg2591:26:1 # text = There was once a cook named Gretel, who wore shoes with red heels, and when she walked out with them on, she turned herself this way and that, was quite happy and thought: ‘You certainly are a pretty girl!’ 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 2 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 6 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 Gretel Gretel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 heels heel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 20 out out ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 23 on on ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 27 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 obj _ _ 28 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 29 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 quite quite ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 39 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 41 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 42 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a cook | | | there | | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **name** | participle | | a cook *not said here* | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wear** | past | Gretel | shoes | | | | with red heels | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | | 4 | **walk out** | past | cook | | | | | with heels *= heel*; out *property* | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **turn** | past | cook | cook | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent herself=Theme way=Result | | 6 | **is** | past | that | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* | past | cook *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** | present | You | a pretty girl | | | | certainly *property* | tree rules | 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: [Tom Thumb, 155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/25/155/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/26/2/) - ↑ back to [Clever Gretel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/26/)