--- title: Then the man saw he wouldn’t get his fifty dollars that day, and wen… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, with its dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/66/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Lea…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/) / 66 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:13:66 # text = 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.” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 7 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 dollars dollar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 off off ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Well well INTJ UH _ 25 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’m be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 26 blessed blessed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 30 advmod _ _ 30 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 31 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 33 det:predet _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 before before ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/67/) - ↑ back to [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/)