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title: The Weasels and the Mice were always up in arms against each other. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Weasels and the Mice were always up in arms against each other. Who acts: Weasels. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mice and the Weasels, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Mice and the Weasels, sentence 1

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The Weasels and the Mice were always up in arms against each other.

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**Who acts:** Weasels · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** arms

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mice and the Weasels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Weasels), 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:pg19994:55:1
# text = The Weasels and the Mice were always up in arms against each other.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	against	against	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nmod	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Weasels and the Mice |  |  | arms against each |  | always, up *property* | tree rules |

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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 Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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