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title: When four weeks had passed and Hansel still remained thin, she lost… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When four weeks had passed and Hansel still remained thin, she lost patience and determined to wait no longer. Who acts: woman. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 100

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When four weeks had passed and Hansel still remained thin, she lost patience and determined to wait no longer.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** pass, hansel, remain, lose, wait · **To what, where:** four weeks, patience

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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:pg503:35:100
# text = When four weeks had passed and Hansel still remained thin, she lost patience and determined to wait no longer.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Hansel	hansel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
10	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	no	no	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive |  | four weeks |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hansel** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **remain** | participle |  |  |  |  | still | thin *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lose** | past | woman | patience |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality |
| 5 | **wait** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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