Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 41

The Sister, finding she could not prevent him, opened the door, with a heavy heart, and the Fawn jumped out, quite delighted, into the forest.

Who acts: Sister, Fawn · What happens: find, not prevent, open, jump out · To what, where: King, door, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sister, Fawn), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sister	det
2	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 opened	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finding	punct
4	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Sister	acl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 prevent	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 prevent	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 prevent	advmod
8	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 finding	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 prevent	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sister	punct
11	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 opened	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heart	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 heart	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 heart	det
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 heart	amod
18	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 opened	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 jumped	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 jumped	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Fawn	det
22	Fawn	Fawn	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 jumped	nsubj
23	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 opened	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 jumped	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 delighted	punct
26	quite	quite	ADV	_	27 delighted	advmod
27	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 jumped	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 forest	punct
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 forest	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 forest	det
31	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 jumped	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	gerund	the Sister not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not prevent	could	Sister	King		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
3	open	past	the Sister	the door	with a heavy heart	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent door=Patient with heart=Instrument
4	jump out	past	the Fawn		into the forest result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into forest=Result

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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