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title: The troll then showed him the two bushels of money which he had earn… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The troll then showed him the two bushels of money which he had earned that year, and the lad was well content to remain in his service for another year. Who acts: troll, lad. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 4

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The troll then showed him the two bushels of money which he had earned that year, and the lad was well content to remain in his service for another year.

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**Who acts:** troll, lad · **What happens:** show, earn, be, remain, service · **To what, where:** two bushels, him, money, service

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troll, lad), 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:pg5615:27:4
# text = The troll then showed him the two bushels of money which he had earned that year, and the lad was well content to remain in his service for another year.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	bushels	bushel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	earned	earn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | the troll | the two bushels of money | him *= he* |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bushel=Topic |
| 2 | **earn** | past · perfect | troll | money |  |  | year |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the lad |  |  |  |  | content, well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **remain** | to-infinitive | the lad *not said here* |  |  | troll's service | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in service=Location |
| 5 | **service** |  | troll |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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