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description: At first the trade went well; for many people, seeing such a beautiful woman, went to buy her wares, and paid their money without thinking of taking away the goods. Who acts: trade. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 51

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At first the trade went well; for many people, seeing such a beautiful woman, went to buy her wares, and paid their money without thinking of taking away the goods.

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**Who acts:** trade · **What happens:** go, see, buy, pay, think, take away · **To what, where:** beautiful woman, wares, money, goods

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trade), 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:pg2591:58:51
# text = At first the trade went well; for many people, seeing such a beautiful woman, went to buy her wares, and paid their money without thinking of taking away the goods.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	16	det:predet	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the trade |  |  |  |  | for many people; well *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent at first=Location for people=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | the trade *not said here* | such beautiful woman |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | past | the trade *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **buy** | to-infinitive | the trade *not said here* | trade's wares |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ware=Theme |
| 5 | **pay** | past | the trade *not said here* | wares's money |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the trade *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **take away** | gerund | the trade *not said here* | the goods |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme |

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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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