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title: The same day a customer came in, and the shoes suited him so well th… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The same day a customer came in, and the shoes suited him so well that he willingly paid a price higher than usual for them; and the poor shoemaker, with the money, bought leather enough to make two pairs more. Who acts: customer, shoes. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Elves 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 7

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The same day a customer came in, and the shoes suited him so well that he willingly paid a price higher than usual for them; and the poor shoemaker, with the money, bought leather enough to make two pairs more.

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**Who acts:** customer, shoes · **What happens:** come in, suit, pay, buy, make · **To what, where:** poor shoemaker, customer, price, two pairs

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Elves and the Shoemaker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (customer, shoes), 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:pg2591:37:7
# text = The same day a customer came in, and the shoes suited him so well that he willingly paid a price higher than usual for them; and the poor shoemaker, with the money, bought leather enough to make two pairs more.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	customer	customer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	suited	suit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	_
38	leather	leather	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
42	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
44	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	43	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | past | a customer | the poor shoemaker and the money |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **suit** | past | the shoes | customer |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pay** | past | customer | a price |  |  |  | willingly *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset |
| 4 | **buy** | participle | a customer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | a customer *not said here* | two pairs |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pair=Product |

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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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