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title: These the troll had tied up, and there were both wolves and bears, d… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: These the troll had tied up, and there were both wolves and bears, deer and hares, which the troll had gathered in the stalls and folds in his stable down beneath the ground, and that stable was a mile long. Who acts: wolves, stable. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 87

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These the troll had tied up, and there were both wolves and bears, deer and hares, which the troll had gathered in the stalls and folds in his stable down beneath the ground, and that stable was a mile long.

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**Who acts:** wolves, stable · **What happens:** tie up, be, gather · **To what, where:** troll, wolves, stalls, mile

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolves, stable), 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:pg5615:26:87
# text = These the troll had tied up, and there were both wolves and bears, deer and hares, which the troll had gathered in the stalls and folds in his stable down beneath the ground, and that stable was a mile long.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	stalls	stall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	folds	fold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
33	down	down	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
39	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
40	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
44	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie up** | past · perfect · passive |  | this troll |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **be** | past | both wolves and bears and deer and hares |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **gather** | past · perfect · passive |  | both wolves and bears and deer and hares |  | the stalls and folds |  | in Troll's stable beneath the ground | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | that stable | a mile |  |  |  |  | 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 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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