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title: Soon in came buyers, who paid him handsomely for his goods, so that… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon in came buyers, who paid him handsomely for his goods, so that he bought leather enough for four pair more. Who acts: buyers, customer. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Elves and the Shoemaker, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 9

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Soon in came buyers, who paid him handsomely for his goods, so that he bought leather enough for four pair more.

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**Who acts:** buyers, customer · **What happens:** come, pay, buy · **To what, where:** buyers, customer, more

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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 (buyers, customer), 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:pg2591:37:9
# text = Soon in came buyers, who paid him handsomely for his goods, so that he bought leather enough for four pair more.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	buyers	buyer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	17	mark	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	leather	leather	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | buyers |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location buyer=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | past | buyers | customer |  |  |  | for customer's goods; handsomely *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Asset for goods=Theme |
| 3 | **buy** | past | customer | more |  |  |  | for four pair; enough, leather *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent more=Theme for pair=Beneficiary |

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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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