Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 18

Then the faithful John saw that it was of no use talking; so, with a heavy heart and many sighs, he picked the key out of the great bunch.

Who acts: faithful John, door, use, John · What happens: see, be, talk, pick · To what, where: key, great bunch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faithful John, door, use, John), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 John	det
3	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 John	amod
4	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 use	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 use	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 use	cop
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 use	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 use	det
11	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	ccomp
12	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 use	acl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 so	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	5 saw	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 heart	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 heart	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 heart	det
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 heart	amod
19	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sighs	cc
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sighs	amod
22	sighs	sigh	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 heart	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 picked	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 picked	nsubj
25	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 key	det
27	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 picked	obj
28	out	out	ADP	_	32 bunch	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 bunch	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bunch	det
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bunch	amod
32	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 picked	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the faithful John			then	with a heavy heart and many sighs	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	door				of no use	tree rules
3	talk	gerund	no use not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pick	past	John	the key	the great bunch			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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