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title: Hansel, who thoroughly appreciated the roof, tore down a big bit of… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hansel, who thoroughly appreciated the roof, tore down a big bit of it, while Grettel pushed out a whole round window-pane, and sat down the better to enjoy it. Who acts: you, Grettel. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 80

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Hansel, who thoroughly appreciated the roof, tore down a big bit of it, while Grettel pushed out a whole round window-pane, and sat down the better to enjoy it.

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**Who acts:** you, Grettel · **What happens:** hansel, appreciate, tore down, push out, sit down, enjoy · **To what, where:** roof, big bit, whole round window pane, pane

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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:pg503:35:80
# text = Hansel, who thoroughly appreciated the roof, tore down a big bit of it, while Grettel pushed out a whole round window-pane, and sat down the better to enjoy it.
1	Hansel	hansel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	appreciated	appreciate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	Grettel	Grettel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
22	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
23	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	pane	pane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
30	down	down	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	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 | **appreciate** | past |  | the roof |  |  |  | thoroughly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer roof=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tore down** | past |  | a big bit of roof |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **push out** | past | Grettel | a whole round window pane |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pane=Theme |
| 5 | **sit down** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **enjoy** | to-infinitive |  | pane |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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