Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 7
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 · What happens: come in, suit, pay, buy, make · To what, where: poor shoemaker, customer, price, two pairs
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.
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 customer | det |
| 5 | customer | customer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 suited | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 suited | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shoes | det |
| 11 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 suited | nsubj |
| 12 | suited | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 suited | obj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 well | advmod |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 suited | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 paid | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 paid | nsubj |
| 18 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 19 paid | advmod |
| 19 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 suited | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 price | det |
| 21 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 paid | obj |
| 22 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 price | amod |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 usual | case |
| 24 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 higher | obl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 higher | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 shoemaker | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 shoemaker | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 shoemaker | det |
| 30 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 shoemaker | amod |
| 31 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 money | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 money | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 money | det |
| 35 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shoemaker | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 bought | punct |
| 37 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 shoemaker | conj |
| 38 | leather | leather | ADV | _ | 39 enough | advmod |
| 39 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 37 bought | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 make | mark |
| 41 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 bought | advcl |
| 42 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 pairs | nummod |
| 43 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 make | obj |
| 44 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 43 pairs | amod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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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