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title: Then the troll sprang into the water and ladled up so many fish that… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the troll sprang into the water and ladled up so many fish that in a short time the trough could hold no more. Who acts: troll, trough. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 145

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Then the troll sprang into the water and ladled up so many fish that in a short time the trough could hold no more.

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**Who acts:** troll, trough · **What happens:** spring, ladle up, hold · **To what, where:** many fish, water

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troll, trough), 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:pg5615:16:145
# text = Then the troll sprang into the water and ladled up so many fish that in a short time the trough could hold no more.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ladled	ladle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	trough	trough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
23	no	no	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past | the troll | many fish |  | the water | then |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location fish=Theme |
| 2 | **ladle up** | participle | the troll *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hold** | could | the trough | many fish |  |  | time |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme more=Eventuality |

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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 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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