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title: Then he went back and said to Grettel: “Be comforted, my dear little… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he went back and said to Grettel: “Be comforted, my dear little sister, and go to sleep: God will not desert us”; and he lay down in bed again. Who acts: Grettel, God. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 16

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Then he went back and said to Grettel: “Be comforted, my dear little sister, and go to sleep: God will not desert us”; and he lay down in bed again.

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**Who acts:** Grettel, God · **What happens:** go back, say, comfort, go, not desert, lie down · **To what, where:** Grettel, dear little sister, sleep, us, bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, God), 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:pg503:35:16
# text = Then he went back and said to Grettel: “Be comforted, my dear little sister, and go to sleep: God will not desert us”; and he lay down in bed again.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Grettel	Grettel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	desert	desert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	down	down	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	again	again	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | Grettel |  |  |  | then |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Grettel *not said here* |  | Grettel |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to grettel=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **comfort** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive |  | my dear little sister |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | sleep |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **not** **desert** *in a quote* | future | God | us |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme we=Source |
| 6 | **lie down** | past | Grettel |  |  | bed | again | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=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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