The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 26

When the giant found that it was no use keeping it shut, he opened it, saying: “I see you are a brave youth.

Who acts: giant, use, door, you · What happens: find, be, keep, open, say, see · To what, where: use, giant, brave youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, use, door, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 found	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 opened	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 use	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 use	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 use	cop
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 use	det
9	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	ccomp
10	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 use	acl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keeping	obj
12	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keeping	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 opened	nsubj
15	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 opened	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 opened	advcl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 saying	ccomp
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 youth	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 youth	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 youth	det
26	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 youth	amod
27	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	the giant			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	giant	no use		tree rules
3	keep	gerund	no use not said here	giant	shut property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	open	past	door	giant		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund	door not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	see in a quote	present	door			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a in a quote	present	you	a brave youth		tree rules

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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