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title: At this splendid offer Peder's prudence gave way; it was a shame to… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this splendid offer Peder's prudence gave way; it was a shame to let so much money go. Who acts: prudence, much money. 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 71

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

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

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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 (prudence, much money), 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:pg3027:39:71
# text = At this splendid offer Peder's prudence gave way; it was a shame to let so much money go.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	Peder	Peder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	prudence	prudence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	expl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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