--- title: The old troll now went out with the gold chess-board, and down to th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The old troll now went out with the gold chess-board, and down to the river, and was about to take a drink, when Ring and Snati came upon him, took the chess-board from him, and threw him into the river. Who acts: old troll, Ring. 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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 (old troll, Ring), 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:pg640:42:132 # text = The old troll now went out with the gold chess-board, and down to the river, and was about to take a drink, when Ring and Snati came upon him, took the chess-board from him, and threw him into the river. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 troll troll NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 10 chess chess NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 down down ADV RB _ 5 parataxis _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 about about ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 when when SCONJ WRB _ 32 mark _ _ 29 Ring Ring PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 Snati Snati PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 33 upon upon ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 chess chess NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 41 from from ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 into into ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go out** | past | the old troll | | | | now | with the gold chess board; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with board=Co-Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | | a drink | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme | | 4 | **come** | past | Ring and Snati | | | | | upon Snati | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | | 5 | **take** | past | Ring and Snati *not said here* | the chess board | | | | from Ring | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent board=Theme from he=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **throw** | past | Ring and Snati *not said here* | Ring | | | | into the river *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into river=Result | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/131/) - next →: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/133/) - ↑ back to [Prince Ring (30)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/)