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title: Gretel ran, and looked to see who was there, and when she saw the gu… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Gretel ran, and looked to see who was there, and when she saw the guest, she put her finger to her lips and said: ‘Hush! hush! go away as quickly as you can, if my master catches you it will be the worse for you; he certainly did ask you to supper, but his intention is to cut off your two ears. Who 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 30

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Gretel ran, and looked to see who was there, and when she saw the guest, she put her finger to her lips and said: ‘Hush! hush! go away as quickly as you can, if my master catches you it will be the worse for you; he certainly did ask you to supper, but his intention is to cut off your two ears.

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**Who acts:** Gretel, master, guest, intention · **What happens:** run, look, see, be, put, say · **To what, where:** guest, finger, you · **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, master, guest, intention), 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:pg2591:26:30
# text = Gretel ran, and looked to see who was there, and when she saw the guest, she put her finger to her lips and said: ‘Hush! hush! go away as quickly as you can, if my master catches you it will be the worse for you; he certainly did ask you to supper, but his intention is to cut off your two ears.
1	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Hush	hush	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
32	hush	hush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
34	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
35	away	away	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	as	as	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
43	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
46	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
48	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
49	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	cop	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	45	parataxis	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
56	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
57	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
59	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	58	iobj	_	_
60	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
61	supper	supper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
63	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	68	cc	_	_
64	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
65	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	nsubj	_	_
66	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	68	cop	_	_
67	to	to	PART	TO	_	68	mark	_	_
68	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
69	off	off	ADP	RP	_	68	compound:prt	_	_
70	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	72	nmod:poss	_	_
71	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	72	nummod	_	_
72	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	68	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Gretel |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | Gretel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | Gretel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | past | Gretel | the guest |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guest=Stimulus |
| 6 | **put** | past | Gretel | Gretel's finger |  |  |  | to Gretel's lips | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Gretel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **go away** | present |  |  |  |  |  | away, quickly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **catch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | my master | you |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 10 | **is** | future | guest |  |  |  |  | for you; bad *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · do-support | master |  | you |  |  | certainly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 12 | **supper** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | master *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 13 | **is** | present | master's intention |  |  |  |  | cut *property* | tree rules |
| 14 | **intend** |  | master |  |  |  |  |  | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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