Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 28

So the woodman at last said he would sell Tom to the strangers for a large piece of gold, and they paid the price.

Who acts: woodman, strangers · What happens: say, sell, pay · To what, where: Tom, strangers, price · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woodman, strangers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woodman	det
3	woodman	woodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 last	case
5	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 woodman	nmod
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sell	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sell	aux
9	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
10	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sell	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 strangers	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 strangers	det
13	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sell	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 piece	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 piece	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 piece	amod
17	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sell	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 gold	case
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 piece	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 paid	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 paid	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 paid	nsubj
23	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 price	det
25	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 paid	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the woodman at last				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sell	would	woodman	Tom	the strangers	for a large piece of gold	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent tom=Theme to stranger=Recipient for piece=Asset
3	pay	past	strangers = stranger	the price			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset

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.

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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