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title: But as the roast meat smelt so good, Gretel thought: ‘Something migh… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But as the roast meat smelt so good, Gretel thought: ‘Something might be wrong, it ought to be tasted!’ Who acts: Gretel, Something. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 13

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But as the roast meat smelt so good, Gretel thought: ‘Something might be wrong, it ought to be tasted!’

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**Who acts:** Gretel, Something · **What happens:** think, be, taste · **To what, where:** smelt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gretel, Something), 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:pg2591:26:13
# text = But as the roast meat smelt so good, Gretel thought: ‘Something might be wrong, it ought to be tasted!’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	smelt	smelt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	tasted	taste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Gretel |  |  |  |  | as the meat smelt | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | might | Something |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **taste** | ought · passive |  | smelt |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Attribute |

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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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