The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 58

The troll said that he would always be welcome; he had served him faithfully for the three years they had agreed upon, and he could make no objections to his leaving now.

Who acts: troll, people · What happens: say, be, serve, agree, make, leave · To what, where: youth, three years, objections · Speech: someone speaks here

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, people), 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	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 welcome	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 welcome	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 welcome	aux
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 welcome	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 welcome	cop
9	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 served	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 served	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 served	aux
13	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 served	obj
15	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	13 served	advmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 years	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 years	det
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 years	nummod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 served	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 agreed	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 agreed	aux
22	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 years	acl:relcl
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 agreed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 make	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 make	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 make	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 make	aux
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 objections	det
30	objections	objection	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 make	obj
31	to	to	SCONJ	_	33 leaving	mark
32	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 leaving	nsubj
33	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 make	advcl
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 leaving	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the troll				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	troll			always, welcome property	tree rules
3	serve	past · perfect	troll	youth	year	faithfully property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute
4	agree speech: agree	past · perfect	people	the three years not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent year=Topic
5	make	could	troll	no objections			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Product
6	leave	gerund	troll		now		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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