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title: The next night everything happened in the same way, but the Troll wh… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The next night everything happened in the same way, but the Troll who came then had six heads and six rods, and he beat him much more severely than the first had done but when the lad went out of doors next morning, the Princesses were out of the earth as far as their knees. Who acts: next night, Tr
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 30

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The next night everything happened in the same way, but the Troll who came then had six heads and six rods, and he beat him much more severely than the first had done but when the lad went out of doors next morning, the Princesses were out of the earth as far as their knees.

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**Who acts:** next night, Troll, flask, first, lad, Princesses · **What happens:** happen, come, have, beat, do, go out · **To what, where:** same way, six heads, sword, doors, earth

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next night, Troll, flask, first), 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:pg540:26:30
# text = The next night everything happened in the same way, but the Troll who came then had six heads and six rods, and he beat him much more severely than the first had done but when the lad went out of doors next morning, the Princesses were out of the earth as far as their knees.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
5	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Troll	Troll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
18	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	rods	rod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
31	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
44	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
49	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
50	out	out	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
54	as	as	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	53	advmod	_	_
56	as	as	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | the next night |  |  | the same way |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | the Troll |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | the Troll *not said here* | six heads and six rods |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 4 | **beat** | past | flask | sword |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past · perfect | the first |  |  |  |  | severely *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go out** | past | the lad | doors |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | the Princesses |  |  | the earth |  | far *property* | tree rules |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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