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title: Gretel was not idle; she ran screaming to her master, and cried: ‘Yo… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Gretel was not idle; she ran screaming to her master, and cried: ‘You have invited a fine guest!’ Who acts: Gretel. 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 33

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Gretel was not idle; she ran screaming to her master, and cried: ‘You have invited a fine guest!’

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**Who acts:** Gretel · **What happens:** not be, run, scream, cry, invite · **To what, where:** master, You

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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), 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:pg2591:26:33
# text = Gretel was not idle; she ran screaming to her master, and cried: ‘You have invited a fine guest!’
1	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | Gretel |  |  |  |  | idle *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | past | Gretel |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund | Gretel *not said here* |  | Gretel's master |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **invite** | present · perfect · passive |  | You |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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