The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 42

No sooner had Minnikin got down to the strand than the Troll came rushing along with a great whistling and whirring, and he was twice as big as the first Troll, and he had ten heads.

Who acts: Minnikin · What happens: have, get down, come, rush, be · To what, where: ten 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), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 strand	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 strand	det
9	strand	strand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 Troll	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Troll	det
12	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 strand	nmod
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
14	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 came	xcomp
15	along	along	ADV	_	14 rushing	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 whistling	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 whistling	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 whistling	amod
19	whistling	whistling	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rushing	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 whirring	cc
21	whirring	whirring	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 whistling	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 big	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 big	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 big	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 big	cop
26	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 big	advmod
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 big	advmod
28	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	parataxis
29	as	as	ADP	_	32 Troll	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Troll	det
31	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 Troll	amod
32	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 big	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 had	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
37	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 heads	nummod
38	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 had	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past			soon property	tree rules
2	get down	past	Minnikin		down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	come	past	Minnikin not said here		to the strand than the Troll	tree rules
4	rush	gerund	Minnikin not said here		with a great whistling and whirring; along property	vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with whistling=Eventuality
5	is	past	Minnikin		as the first Troll; big, twice property	tree rules
6	have	past	Minnikin	ten 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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