The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 4

The troll then showed him the two bushels of money which he had earned that year, and the lad was well content to remain in his service for another year.

Who acts: troll, lad · What happens: show, earn, be, remain, service · To what, where: two bushels, him, money, service

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. 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	8 bushels	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 bushels	nummod
8	bushels	bushel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 showed	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 money	case
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bushels	nmod
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 earned	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 earned	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 earned	aux
14	earned	earn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 money	acl:relcl
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 year	det
16	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 earned	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 content	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 content	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lad	det
20	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 content	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 content	cop
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 content	advmod
23	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 showed	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 remain	mark
25	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 content	advcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 service	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 service	nmod:poss
28	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 remain	obl
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 year	case
30	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 year	det
31	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 remain	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	the troll	the two bushels of money	him = he		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			year		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
3	is	past	the lad					content, well property	tree rules
4	remain	to-infinitive	the lad not said here			troll's service	year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in service=Location
5	service		troll						nom service «act transitive»: poss=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 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/27/4/