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title: Hansel and Grettel sat down beside the fire, and at midday ate their… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hansel and Grettel sat down beside the fire, and at midday ate their little bits of bread. Who acts: you, Grettel. 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 30

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Hansel and Grettel sat down beside the fire, and at midday ate their little bits of bread.

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**Who acts:** you, Grettel · **What happens:** hansel, sit down, eat · **To what, where:** fire, little bits, midday

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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 (you, Grettel), 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:pg503:35:30
# text = Hansel and Grettel sat down beside the fire, and at midday ate their little bits of bread.
1	Hansel	hansel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	Grettel	Grettel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hansel** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | Grettel |  |  | the fire |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside fire=Location |
| 3 | **eat** | past |  | Hansel's little bits of bread |  | midday |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient |

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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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