--- title: ‘Perhaps you will serve me for another year yet,’ said the troll, ‘a… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Perhaps you will serve me for another year yet,’ said the troll, ‘and you will get six bushels of money for it; that makes twelve in all, and that is a pretty penny.’ Who acts: you, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg5615:27:56 # text = ‘Perhaps you will serve me for another year yet,’ said the troll, ‘and you will get six bushels of money for it; that makes twelve in all, and that is a pretty penny.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 yet yet ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 troll troll NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 17 ‘ ‘ PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 22 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 bushels bushel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 nsubj _ _ 30 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 31 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 penny penny NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **serve** | future | you | me | | | yet; year | perhaps *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the troll | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | future | you | six bushels of money for money | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bushel=Stimulus | | 4 | **make** | present | that | twelve | | all | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset twelve=Product | | 5 | **is a** | present | that | a pretty penny | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/27/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/27/57/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/27/)