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title: And now at last the young wrens were satisfied, and sat down togethe… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And now at last the young wrens were satisfied, and sat down together and ate and drank, and made merry till quite late into the night. Who acts: young wrens. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 36

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And now at last the young wrens were satisfied, and sat down together and ate and drank, and made merry till quite late into the night.

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**Who acts:** young wrens · **What happens:** be, sit down, eat, drink, make

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young wrens), 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:pg2591:12:36
# text = And now at last the young wrens were satisfied, and sat down together and ate and drank, and made merry till quite late into the night.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wrens	wren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the young wrens |  |  |  |  | satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit down** | past |  |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drink** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | past |  |  |  |  |  | late, merry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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