The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 16
Just as he got to the place where the King’s daughter was sitting, the Troll came rushing up with a great whistling and whirring, and he was so big and stout that he was terrible to see, and he had five heads.
Who acts: Minnikin, daughter, Troll · What happens: get, sit, come, rush up, be, stout · To what, where: five heads
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minnikin, daughter, Troll), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 got | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 sitting | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 King | case |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sitting | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sitting | aux |
| 14 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 place | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Troll | det |
| 17 | Troll | Troll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sitting | conj |
| 19 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 came | xcomp |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 rushing | compound:prt |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 whistling | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 whistling | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 whistling | amod |
| 24 | whistling | whistling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rushing | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 whirring | cc |
| 26 | whirring | whirring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 whistling | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 big | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 big | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 big | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 big | cop |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 big | advmod |
| 32 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 stout | cc |
| 34 | stout | stout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 terrible | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 terrible | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 terrible | cop |
| 38 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 stout | ccomp |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 see | mark |
| 40 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 terrible | xcomp |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 had | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 had | cc |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 had | nsubj |
| 44 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 45 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 heads | nummod |
| 46 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 had | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Minnikin | to the place result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result | ||||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | the King's daughter | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the Troll | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rush up | gerund | the Troll not said here | with a great whistling and whirring | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with whistling=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Minnikin | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stout | past | Minnikin not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | is | past | Minnikin | terrible property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | see | to-infinitive | Minnikin not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | have | past | Minnikin | five heads | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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