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title: A Troll with six heads lives here, who is the owner of the wood, and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A Troll with six heads lives here, who is the owner of the wood, and I do not think I should be able to overcome him.’ Who acts: Troll, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 51

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A Troll with six heads lives here, who is the owner of the wood, and I do not think I should be able to overcome him.’

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**Who acts:** Troll, I · **What happens:** live, be, not think, overcome · **To what, where:** owner, Troll · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Troll, I), 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:pg540:29:51
# text = A Troll with six heads lives here, who is the owner of the wood, and I do not think I should be able to overcome him.’
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | a Troll with six heads |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the owner |  |  |  | of the wood | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | should | I |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **overcome** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Troll |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |

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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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