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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 58

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The troll said that he would always be welcome; he had served him faithfully for the three years they had agreed upon, and he could make no objections to his leaving now.

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**Who acts:** troll, people · **What happens:** say, be, serve, agree, make, leave · **To what, where:** youth, three years, objections · **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 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, people), 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:pg5615:27:58
# text = The troll said that he would always be welcome; he had served him faithfully for the three years they had agreed upon, and he could make no objections to his leaving now.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	objections	objection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
34	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would | troll |  |  |  |  | always, welcome *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **serve** | past · perfect | troll | youth |  |  | year | faithfully *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
| 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past · perfect | people | the three years *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent year=Topic |
| 5 | **make** | could | troll | no objections |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Product |
| 6 | **leave** | gerund | troll |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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