The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 62

There he met a man who offered nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars for it, but Peder would take nothing less than a thousand.

Who acts: Peder, man · What happens: meet, offer, take · To what, where: man, hundred nine dollars, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peder, man), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 met	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 met	nsubj
3	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 met	obj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 offered	nsubj
7	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	acl:relcl
8	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hundred	compound
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 dollars	nummod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ninety	cc
11	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hundred	conj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 ninety	punct
13	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 dollars	nummod
14	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 offered	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 offered	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 take	cc
19	Peder	Peder	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 take	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 met	parataxis
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 take	obj
23	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	26 thousand	advmod
24	than	than	ADP	_	23 less	fixed
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 thousand	det
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 take	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	Peder	a man	there		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
2	offer	past	a man	hundred nine dollars		for animal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent dollar=Theme for it=Goal
3	take	would	Peder	nothing			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument nothing=Theme thousand=Destination

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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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