--- title: When she came to the merchant in the town, he did not give her more… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When she came to the merchant in the town, he did not give her more than two talers for a skin, and when the others came, he did not give them so much, and said: ‘What can I do with all these skins?’ Who acts: servant, mayor, others, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, mayor, others, I), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:28:65 # text = When she came to the merchant in the town, he did not give her more than two talers for a skin, and when the others came, he did not give them so much, and said: ‘What can I do with all these skins?’ 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 18 advmod _ _ 17 than than ADP IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 talers taler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 25 when when SCONJ WRB _ 28 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 iobj _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 much much ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 40 : : PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 41 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 45 obj _ _ 43 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 ccomp _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 49 det:predet _ _ 48 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 49 det _ _ 49 skins skin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ? ? PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | servant | | | the merchant in the town | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to merchant=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **not** **give** | past · do-support | mayor | two talers | servant | | | for a skin | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient taler=Theme for skin=Asset | | 3 | **come** | past | the others | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **give** | past · do-support | mayor | | talers *= taler* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **do** | can | I | | | | | with all skins | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/28/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/28/66/) - ↑ back to [The Little Peasant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/28/)