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title: Then Gretel became angry, tore herself loose and ran away, and was n… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Gretel became angry, tore herself loose and ran away, and was no longer the bride of Hans. Who acts: Gretel. 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 166

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Then Gretel became angry, tore herself loose and ran away, and was no longer the bride of Hans.

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**Who acts:** Gretel · **What happens:** become, tore, run away, be · **To what, where:** Gretel, bride

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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 (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:pg2591:40:166
# text = Then Gretel became angry, tore herself loose and ran away, and was no longer the bride of Hans.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	no	no	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Hans	Han	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Gretel |  |  |  | then | angry *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **tore** | past | Gretel *not said here* | Gretel |  |  |  | loose *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **run away** | past | Gretel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | the bride |  |  |  | of Hans; long *property* | 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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