--- title: When the old people were asleep Hansel got up, and wanted to go out… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the old people were asleep Hansel got up, and wanted to go out and pick up pebbles again, as he had done the first time; but the woman had barred the door, and Hansel couldn’t get out. Who acts: old people, asleep Hansel, man, Hansel. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/49/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Hansel and Grettel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/) / 49 # The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 49 When the old people were asleep Hansel got up, and wanted to go out and pick up pebbles again, as he had done the first time; but the woman had barred the door, and Hansel couldn’t get out. **Who acts:** old people, asleep Hansel, man, Hansel · **What happens:** be, get up, want, go out, pick up, do · **To what, where:** pebbles, woman 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 (old people, asleep Hansel, man, Hansel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:35:49 # text = When the old people were asleep Hansel got up, and wanted to go out and pick up pebbles again, as he had done the first time; but the woman had barred the door, and Hansel couldn’t get out. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Hansel Hansel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 out out ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 again again ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 parataxis _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 28 amod _ _ 28 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 barred bar VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 Hansel Hansel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 40 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 41 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 43 out out ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the old people | | | | | asleep *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **get up** | past | asleep Hansel | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **want** | past | asleep Hansel *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **go out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | asleep Hansel *not said here* | | | | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pick up** | infinitive | asleep Hansel *not said here* | pebbles | | | again | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Topic | | 6 | **do** | past · perfect | man | | | | time | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **bar** | past · perfect · passive | | the woman | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **get out** | could | Hansel | | | | | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/50/) - ↑ back to [Hansel and Grettel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/)