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title: Almost immediately after he had got down to the sea-shore the Troll… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2, with its d
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 65

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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.

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**Who acts:** roast · **What happens:** get down, come, be, have · **To what, where:** fifteen heads

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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.

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**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:pg540:45:65
# text = 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.
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
3	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Troll	Troll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	whizzing	whizzing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	whirring	whirring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	parataxis	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
35	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
41	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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