The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 71

At this splendid offer Peder's prudence gave way; it was a shame to let so much money go.

Who acts: prudence, much money · What happens: give, be, let, go · To what, where: way, splendid offer, shame, much money

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 (prudence, much money), 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	_	4 offer	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 offer	det
3	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 offer	amod
4	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obl
5	Peder	Peder	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 prudence	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Peder	case
7	prudence	prudence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 shame	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shame	expl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shame	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 shame	det
14	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 let	mark
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 shame	acl
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 money	amod
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	obj
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	give	past	Peder's prudence	way	this splendid offer	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent way=Theme at offer=Asset
2	is a	past		a shame		tree rules
3	let	to-infinitive	Peder's prudence not said here	much money		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	much money not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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