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title: In the Grimms' “Hansel and Grethel,” Hansel pokes out a stick instea… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Grimms' “Hansel and Grethel,” Hansel pokes out a stick instead of his finger that the witch may not think him fat enough for the table. Who acts: Hansel, witch. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXX. Mr. Miacca., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXX. Mr. Miacca., sentence 5

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In the Grimms' “Hansel and Grethel,” Hansel pokes out a stick instead of his finger that the witch may not think him fat enough for the table.

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**Who acts:** Hansel, witch · **What happens:** poke out, not think · **To what, where:** stick, Hansel, Grethel

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXX. Mr. Miacca.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hansel, witch), 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:pg7439:80:5
# text = In the Grimms' “Hansel and Grethel,” Hansel pokes out a stick instead of his finger that the witch may not think him fat enough for the table.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Grimms	Grimm	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pokes	poke	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
28	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poke out** | present | Hansel | a stick |  | the Grimms's Hansel and Grethel |  | instead Grethel's finger | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | may | the witch | Grethel |  |  |  | fat *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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