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title: They were both very unhappy, but agreed to make the best of things a… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They were both very unhappy, but agreed to make the best of things and to remain with one another. Who acts: mouse. 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 19

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They were both very unhappy, but agreed to make the best of things and to remain with one another.

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**Who acts:** mouse · **What happens:** be, agree, make, remain · **To what, where:** best

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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 (mouse), 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:pg2591:21:19
# text = They were both very unhappy, but agreed to make the best of things and to remain with one another.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	both	both	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | mouse |  |  |  |  | both, unhappy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | mouse *not said here* | the best of things |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product |
| 4 | **remain** | to-infinitive | mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with one | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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