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The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 25

So he grasped the sword which he had got from the old crook-backed woman, and slashed at the Troll so that all five heads went flying away over the sands.

Who acts: Minnikin, five heads · What happens: grasp, get, back, slash, go, fly away · To what, where: sword, sands

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, five heads), 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

advmodnsubjdetobjoblnsubjauxacl:relclcasedetamodcompoundpunctamodoblpunctccconjcasedetoblmarkfixeddetnummodnsubjadvclxcompadvmodcasedetoblpunctrootSoADVhePRONgraspedVERBtheDETswordNOUNwhichPRONhePRONhadAUXgotVERBfromADPtheDEToldADJcrookNOUN-PUNCTbackedVERBwomanNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJslashedVERBatADPtheDETTrollNOUNsoSCONJthatSCONJallDETfiveNUMheadsNOUNwentVERBflyingVERBawayADVoverADPtheDETsandsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_3 graspedadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 graspednsubj
3graspedgraspVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 sworddet
5swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing3 graspedobj
6whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel9 gotobl
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 gotnsubj
8hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 gotaux
9gotgetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part5 swordacl:relcl
10fromfromADP_16 womancase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 womandet
12oldoldADJDegree=Pos16 womanamod
13crookcrookNOUNNumber=Sing15 backedcompound
14--PUNCT_13 crookpunct
15backedbackVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 womanamod
16womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing9 gotobl
17,,PUNCT_19 slashedpunct
18andandCCONJ_19 slashedcc
19slashedslashVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 graspedconj
20atatADP_22 Trollcase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 Trolldet
22TrolltrollNOUNNumber=Sing19 slashedobl
23sosoSCONJExtPos=SCONJ28 wentmark
24thatthatSCONJ_23 sofixed
25allallDETPronType=Tot27 headsdet
26fivefiveNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card27 headsnummod
27headsheadNOUNNumber=Plur28 wentnsubj
28wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 slashedadvcl
29flyingflyVERBVerbForm=Ger28 wentxcomp
30awayawayADV_29 flyingadvmod
31overoverADP_33 sandscase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 sandsdet
33sandssandNOUNNumber=Plur29 flyingobl
34..PUNCT_3 graspedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1grasppastMinnikinthe swordvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus
2getpast · perfectMinnikinthe swordfrom the old backed womanvn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from woman=Destination
3backparticiplevn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4slashparticipleMinnikin not said hereat the Trollvn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at troll=Patient
5gopastall five headsvn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6fly awaygerundall five heads not said herethe sandsaway propertyvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sand=Location

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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