Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 9

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

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.

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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 came	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 came	case
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	buyers	buyer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 paid	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 paid	nsubj
7	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 buyers	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 paid	obj
9	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	_	7 paid	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 goods	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 goods	nmod:poss
12	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 paid	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bought	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 bought	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bought	nsubj
17	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
18	leather	leather	ADV	_	17 bought	advmod
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	17 bought	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 pair	case
21	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 pair	nummod
22	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bought	obl
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 bought	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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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