Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 41

He drew it quickly out again, but saw that it was quite gilded, and whatsoever pains he took to wash the gold off again, all was to no purpose.

Who acts: boy, whatsoever, all · What happens: draw, see, gild, pain, take, wash off · To what, where: care, gold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, whatsoever, all), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	obj
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 out	advmod
5	out	out	ADV	_	2 drew	advmod
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 drew	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 gilded	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gilded	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gilded	aux:pass
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 gilded	advmod
14	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 saw	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pains	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pains	cc
17	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 pains	nsubj
18	pains	pain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 took	nsubj
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 pains	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 wash	mark
22	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 took	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gold	det
24	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wash	obj
25	off	off	ADP	_	22 wash	compound:prt
26	again	again	ADV	_	22 wash	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 purpose	punct
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 purpose	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 purpose	cop
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 purpose	case
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 purpose	det
32	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wash	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	boy	care	again	out property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	see	past	boy not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	gild	past · passive		care			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
4	pain	present	whatsoever				tree rules
5	take	past	boy				vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
6	wash off	to-infinitive	boy not said here	the gold	again		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient
7	is	past	all			to no purpose	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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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