The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 65

Almost immediately after he had got down to the sea-shore the Troll came with a great whizzing and whirring, and he was much, much bigger than either of the two former ones, and he had fifteen heads.

Who acts: roast · What happens: get down, come, be, have · To what, where: fifteen 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 (roast), 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	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 immediately	advmod
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 got	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	aux
6	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 immediately	advcl
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 got	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 shore	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shore	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shore	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 sea	punct
12	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Troll	det
14	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 shore	appos
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 whizzing	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 whizzing	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 whizzing	amod
19	whizzing	whizzing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 whirring	cc
21	whirring	whirring	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 whizzing	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bigger	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bigger	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 much	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 much	cop
26	much	much	ADV	_	29 bigger	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bigger	punct
28	much	much	ADV	_	29 bigger	advmod
29	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 came	parataxis
30	than	than	ADP	_	31 either	case
31	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	29 bigger	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	36 ones	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ones	det
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 ones	nummod
35	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ones	amod
36	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 either	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 had	cc
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	parataxis
41	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 heads	nummod
42	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 had	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get down	past · perfect	roast		to the sea shore result; down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shore=Result
2	come	past			with a great whizzing and whirring; immediately property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	roast		much property	tree rules
4	have	past	roast	fifteen 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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