The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 101
The troll then showed him the bushel of money that he had already earned, and the lad was well pleased to serve him for another year.
Who acts: troll, lad · What happens: show, earn, be, serve · To what, where: bushel, lad, money
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troll, lad), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 troll | det |
| 2 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 showed | advmod |
| 4 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 showed | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bushel | det |
| 7 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 money | case |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bushel | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 earned | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 earned | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 earned | aux |
| 13 | already | already | ADV | _ | 14 earned | advmod |
| 14 | earned | earn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 money | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pleased | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pleased | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lad | det |
| 18 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pleased | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pleased | cop |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 pleased | advmod |
| 21 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 showed | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 serve | mark |
| 23 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 pleased | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 serve | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 year | case |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 year | det |
| 27 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 serve | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the troll | the bushel of money | lad | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bushel=Topic | ||
| 2 | earn | past · perfect | Troll | money | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the lad | pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | serve | to-infinitive | the lad not said here | lad | year | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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