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title: “I’ll tell you what, husband,” answered the woman; “early to-morrow… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I’ll tell you what, husband,” answered the woman; “early to-morrow morning we’ll take the children out into the thickest part of the wood; there we shall light a fire for them and give them each a piece of bread; then we’ll go on to our work and leave them alone. Who acts: woman, we, our. A sentenc
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 4

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“I’ll tell you what, husband,” answered the woman; “early to-morrow morning we’ll take the children out into the thickest part of the wood; there we shall light a fire for them and give them each a piece of bread; then we’ll go on to our work and leave them alone.

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**Who acts:** woman, we, our · **What happens:** tell, answer, take out, light, give, go on · **To what, where:** husband, you, children, thickest part, fire, piece · **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 (woman, we, our), 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:pg503:35:4
# text = “I’ll tell you what, husband,” answered the woman; “early to-morrow morning we’ll take the children out into the thickest part of the wood; there we shall light a fire for them and give them each a piece of bread; then we’ll go on to our work and leave them alone.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	out	out	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	thickest	thick	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
30	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	38	expl	_	_
36	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	light	light	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	iobj	_	_
46	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	48	det	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	55	punct	_	_
52	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	55	advmod	_	_
53	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
56	on	on	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
57	to	to	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	conj	_	_
62	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	obj	_	_
63	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | the woman *= woman* | husband | you |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take out** *in a quote* | future | we | the children |  | the thickest part of the wood | morning | early, out *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 4 | **light** *in a quote* | shall | we | a fire |  | there |  | for children *= child* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fire=Product for they=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* | each piece of bread | children *= child* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient piece=Theme |
| 6 | **go on** *in a quote* | future | we |  |  |  | then | to our work | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 8 | **work** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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