Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 19
They were both very unhappy, but agreed to make the best of things and to remain with one another.
Who acts: mouse · What happens: be, agree, make, remain · To what, where: best
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.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 unhappy | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unhappy | cop |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 5 unhappy | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 unhappy | advmod |
| 5 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 agreed | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 agreed | cc |
| 8 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unhappy | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 agreed | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 best | det |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 things | case |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 best | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 remain | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 remain | mark |
| 17 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 make | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 remain | obl |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 one | fixed |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unhappy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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.
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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