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title: Next morning the troll said to him, ‘To-day the animals are not to b… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning the troll said to him, ‘To-day the animals are not to be fed; they don’t get the like of that every day. Who acts: troll, animals. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 89

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Next morning the troll said to him, ‘To-day the animals are not to be fed; they don’t get the like of that every day.

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**Who acts:** troll, animals · **What happens:** say, not feed, not get · **To what, where:** boy, animals, the · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (troll, animals), 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:pg5615:26:89
# text = Next morning the troll said to him, ‘To-day the animals are not to be fed; they don’t get the like of that every day.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	To	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	obj	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obl	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the troll |  | boy |  | morning |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **feed** | present · passive |  | the animals |  |  | day |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **get** | present · do-support | animals *= animal* | the |  |  | day | like that | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer the=Stimulus |

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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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