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title: And they made up their minds to stay where they were and continue to… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And they made up their minds to stay where they were and continue to earn their living by selling firewood. Who acts: brothers. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 30

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And they made up their minds to stay where they were and continue to earn their living by selling firewood.

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**Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** make up, stay, continue, earn, sell, mind · **To what, where:** minds, living, firewood

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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:pg5615:37:30
# text = And they made up their minds to stay where they were and continue to earn their living by selling firewood.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
20	firewood	firewood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | past | brothers *= brother* | brothers's minds |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 2 | **stay** | to-infinitive | brothers *= brother* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **continue** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **earn** | to-infinitive | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | brothers's living |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme |
| 5 | **sell** | gerund | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | firewood |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firewood=Theme |
| 6 | **mind** |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **live** |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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