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title: As soon as he was gone, there came by some pedlars with earthenware… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as he was gone, there came by some pedlars with earthenware plates and dishes, and they asked her whether she would buy. Who acts: care, dishes, Frederick. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 33

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As soon as he was gone, there came by some pedlars with earthenware plates and dishes, and they asked her whether she would buy.

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**Who acts:** care, dishes, Frederick · **What happens:** be, come, ask, buy · **To what, where:** Frederick

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (care, dishes, Frederick), 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:pg2591:29:33
# text = As soon as he was gone, there came by some pedlars with earthenware plates and dishes, and they asked her whether she would buy.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	pedlars	pedlar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	earthenware	earthenware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | care |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  | there |  | by some pedlars with earthenware plates and dishes; soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by pedlar=Location |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | dishes *= dish* |  | Frederick |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **buy** *not said to happen* | would | Frederick |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=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:** «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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