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title: Hans takes Gretel, ties her to a rope, leads her to the rack, and bi… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Hans takes Gretel, ties her to a rope, leads her to the rack, and binds her fast. Who acts: Hans. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Hans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 151

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Hans takes Gretel, ties her to a rope, leads her to the rack, and binds her fast.

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**Who acts:** Hans · **What happens:** take, tie, lead, bind · **To what, where:** Gretel, rack

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans), 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:pg2591:40:151
# text = Hans takes Gretel, ties her to a rope, leads her to the rack, and binds her fast.
1	Hans	han	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	ties	tie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rack	rack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	binds	bind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | Hans |  | Gretel |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument gretel=Destination |
| 2 | **tie** | present | Hans *not said here* | Gretel |  |  |  | to a rope | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to rope=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **lead** | present | Hans *not said here* | Gretel |  | the rack |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to rack=Destination |
| 4 | **bind** | present | Hans *not said here* | Gretel |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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