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description: Then a big fire was lit again, and the mother said: “Just sit down there, children, and if you’re tired you can sleep a bit; we’re going into the forest to cut down wood, and in the evening when we’re finished we’ll come back to fetch you.” Who acts: mother, you, we. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Bo
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 59

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Then a big fire was lit again, and the mother said: “Just sit down there, children, and if you’re tired you can sleep a bit; we’re going into the forest to cut down wood, and in the evening when we’re finished we’ll come back to fetch you.”

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**Who acts:** mother, you, we · **What happens:** lit, say, sit down, be, sleep, go · **To what, where:** big fire, children, bit, forest, wood, we · **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 (mother, you, we), 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:pg503:35:59
# text = Then a big fire was lit again, and the mother said: “Just sit down there, children, and if you’re tired you can sleep a bit; we’re going into the forest to cut down wood, and in the evening when we’re finished we’ll come back to fetch you.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	advcl	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’re	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
26	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’re	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
35	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	xcomp	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
41	down	down	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
48	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	51	advmod	_	_
49	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	’re	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
52	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
55	back	back	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	advcl	_	_
58	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	54	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lit** | past · passive |  | a big fire |  |  | then; again; evening |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sit down** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | children |  | there |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **does** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sleep** *in a quote* | can | you | a bit |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **cut down** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | wood |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product |
| 9 | **finish** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | we |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 10 | **come back** *in a quote* | future | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **fetch** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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