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title: They at length agreed that the person should be chosen as pope who s… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They at length agreed that the person should be chosen as pope who should be distinguished by some divine and miraculous token. Who acts: cardinals, divine token. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 32

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They at length agreed that the person should be chosen as pope who should be distinguished by some divine and miraculous token.

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**Who acts:** cardinals, divine token · **What happens:** agree, choose, distinguish · **To what, where:** length, person, pope · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cardinals, divine token), 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:pg2591:41:32
# text = They at length agreed that the person should be chosen as pope who should be distinguished by some divine and miraculous token.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	pope	pope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	distinguished	distinguish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
19	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	miraculous	miraculous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | cardinals *= cardinal* |  |  | length |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **choose** | should · passive |  | the person |  |  |  | as pope | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **distinguish** | should · passive | some divine token | pope |  |  |  |  | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute subject=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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