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title: There he met a man who offered nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 62

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

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:39:62
# text = There he met a man who offered nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars for it, but Peder would take nothing less than a thousand.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	Peder	Peder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	21	obj	_	_
23	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	26	advmod	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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