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title: So the brothers agreed that this plan would be much better than eith… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the brothers agreed that this plan would be much better than either quarrelling or marrying a lady who had no mind to have them. Who acts: brothers, plan, lady. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 55

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So the brothers agreed that this plan would be much better than either quarrelling or marrying a lady who had no mind to have them.

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**Who acts:** brothers, plan, lady · **What happens:** agree, be, marry, have · **To what, where:** lady, mind, brothers

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, plan, lady), 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:pg2591:43:55
# text = So the brothers agreed that this plan would be much better than either quarrelling or marrying a lady who had no mind to have them.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	much	much	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	ccomp	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	quarrelling	quarrelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	marrying	marry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	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 | the brothers |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would | this plan |  |  |  |  | than either quarrelling; good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **marry** | gerund | this plan *not said here* | a lady |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | past | a lady | no mind |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | to-infinitive | a lady *not said here* | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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