Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 51

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

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.

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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 went	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trade	det
4	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 went	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 people	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 people	case
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seeing	punct
12	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 went	advcl
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 woman	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seeing	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 buy	mark
20	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 went	xcomp
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wares	nmod:poss
22	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 buy	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 paid	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 paid	cc
25	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 money	nmod:poss
27	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 paid	obj
28	without	without	SCONJ	_	29 thinking	mark
29	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 paid	advcl
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 taking	mark
31	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 thinking	advcl
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 taking	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 goods	det
34	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	31 taking	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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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