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title: Grettel shook out her apron so that the pearls and precious stones r… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Grettel shook out her apron so that the pearls and precious stones rolled about the room, and Hansel threw down one handful after the other out of his pocket. Who acts: Grettel, Hansel. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 130

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Grettel shook out her apron so that the pearls and precious stones rolled about the room, and Hansel threw down one handful after the other out of his pocket.

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**Who acts:** Grettel, Hansel · **What happens:** shake out, roll, throw down · **To what, where:** apron, precious stones, one handful, pocket

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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 (Grettel, Hansel), 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:pg503:35:130
# text = Grettel shook out her apron so that the pearls and precious stones rolled about the room, and Hansel threw down one handful after the other out of his pocket.
1	Grettel	Grettel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake out** | past | Grettel | woman's apron |  |  |  | so the pearls and precious stones | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent apron=Patient |
| 2 | **roll** | participle |  | precious stones *not said here* |  |  |  | about the room | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about room=Trajectory |
| 3 | **throw down** | past | Hansel | one handful |  | Grettel's pocket | after the other |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent handful=Theme out pocket=Initial\_Location |

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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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