--- title: Then she said: ‘Well, Gretel, enjoy yourself, one fowl has been cut… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then she said: ‘Well, Gretel, enjoy yourself, one fowl has been cut into, take another drink, and eat it up entirely; when it is eaten you will have some peace, why should God’s good gifts be spoilt?’ Who acts: other, Gretel, you, God. 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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 (other, Gretel, you, God), 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:pg2591:26:22 # text = Then she said: ‘Well, Gretel, enjoy yourself, one fowl has been cut into, take another drink, and eat it up entirely; when it is eaten you will have some peace, why should God’s good gifts be spoilt?’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Well well INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 Gretel Gretel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 enjoy enjoy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 11 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 fowl fowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 21 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 eat eat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 28 entirely entirely ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 when when SCONJ WRB _ 33 mark _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 advcl _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 37 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 40 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 47 advmod _ _ 41 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 42 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’s 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj:pass _ _ 46 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 spoilt spoil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | other | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **enjoy** | infinitive | Gretel | yourself | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus | | 3 | **cut** | present · perfect · passive | | one fowl | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 4 | **take** | infinitive | | another drink | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme | | 5 | **eat up** | infinitive | | drink | | | | entirely *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **eat** | present · passive | | drink | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **have** | future | you | some peace | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient | | 8 | **spoil** | should · passive | | God's good gifts | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **gift** | | God | | | | | | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/26/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/26/23/) - ↑ back to [Clever Gretel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/26/)