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title: Then all will be over with the troll; he will ask no more questions,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then all will be over with the troll; he will ask no more questions, and we shall be free to wed.’ Who acts: all, fish, we. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 47

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Then all will be over with the troll; he will ask no more questions, and we shall be free to wed.’

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**Who acts:** all, fish, we · **What happens:** be, ask · **To what, where:** more questions

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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 (all, fish, we), 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:pg5615:27:47
# text = Then all will be over with the troll; he will ask no more questions, and we shall be free to wed.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	no	no	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	wed.	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | all |  |  |  | then | with the troll; over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | future | fish | more questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | shall | we |  |  |  | wednesday | free *property* | 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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