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title: Soon he became known as ‘The Maker of Gold Shoes,’ and prospered so… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon he became known as ‘The Maker of Gold Shoes,’ and prospered so greatly, that as long as one could be bought from him not a shoe was purchased from the shoemakers of the town. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 27

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Soon he became known as ‘The Maker of Gold Shoes,’ and prospered so greatly, that as long as one could be bought from him not a shoe was purchased from the shoemakers of the town.

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**What happens:** know, prosper, buy, not purchase · **To what, where:** straightway, one, shoe, shoemakers

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg3454:35:27
# text = Soon he became known as ‘The Maker of Gold Shoes,’ and prospered so greatly, that as long as one could be bought from him not a shoe was purchased from the shoemakers of the town.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Maker	Maker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Gold	Gold	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	prospered	prosper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	purchased	purchase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	shoemakers	shoemaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | straightway |  |  |  | as the Maker of Gold Shoes; soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as maker=Attribute |
| 2 | **prosper** | past |  |  |  |  |  | greatly, long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **buy** | could · passive |  | one |  |  |  | from straightway | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from he=Source |
| 4 | **not** **purchase** | past · passive |  | a shoe |  | the shoemakers of the town |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from shoemaker=Source |

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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:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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