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title: Hans went into the stable, cut out all the calves’ and sheep’s eyes,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Hans went into the stable, cut out all the calves’ and sheep’s eyes, and threw them in Gretel’s face. 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 165

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Hans went into the stable, cut out all the calves’ and sheep’s eyes, and threw them in Gretel’s face.

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**Who acts:** Hans · **What happens:** go, cut out, throw · **To what, where:** eyes, stable, Hans, face

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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:pg2591:40:165
# text = Hans went into the stable, cut out all the calves’ and sheep’s eyes, and threw them in Gretel’s face.
1	Hans	han	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	calves	calf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Hans | sheep's eyes |  | the stable and all cut calves |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **cut out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **throw** | past | Hans *not said here* | Hans *= han* |  | Gretel's face |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme in face=Destination |

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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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