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title: Once upon a time, a mouse, a bird, and a sausage, entered into partn… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Once upon a time, a mouse, a bird, and a sausage, entered into partnership and set up house together. Who acts: sausage. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 1

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Once upon a time, a mouse, a bird, and a sausage, entered into partnership and set up house together.

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**Who acts:** sausage · **What happens:** enter, set up · **To what, where:** partnership, house

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sausage), 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:pg2591:21:1
# text = Once upon a time, a mouse, a bird, and a sausage, entered into partnership and set up house together.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	0	root	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	partnership	partnership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | participle | a sausage |  |  | partnership |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into partnership=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **set up** | participle | a sausage *not said here* | house |  |  |  | together *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result |

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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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