The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 66

Then the man saw he wouldn’t get his fifty dollars that day, and went off, saying: “Well, I’m blessed if I ever met such a person in my life before.”

Who acts: man · What happens: see, not get, go off, say, be, meet · To what, where: fifty dollars, person, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
7	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 get	advmod
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	ccomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dollars	nmod:poss
10	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 dollars	nummod
11	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 get	obj
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dollars	nmod:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 went	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 went	advcl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 ’m	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 ’m	punct
22	Well	well	INTJ	_	25 ’m	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Well	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 ’m	nsubj
25	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
26	blessed	blessed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ’m	xcomp
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 met	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 met	nsubj
29	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 met	advmod
30	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 ’m	advcl
31	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	33 person	det:predet
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 person	det
33	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 met	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 life	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 life	nmod:poss
36	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 met	obl
37	before	before	ADV	_	30 met	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the man			then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not get	would	man	man's fifty dollars that day				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dollar=Stimulus
3	go off	past	the man not said here					vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	the man not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	be in a quote	present	man				blessed property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	meet a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	man	such person	my life	ever	before property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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