The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 22
Then Trusty John saw there was no way out of it, so with a heavy heart and many sighs he took the key from the big bunch.
Who acts: Trusty, way · What happens: see, be, take · To what, where: key, big bunch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Trusty, way), 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 | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Trusty | Trusty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Trusty | flat |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 took | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 heart | det |
| 16 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 heart | amod |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sighs | cc |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sighs | amod |
| 20 | sighs | sigh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 heart | conj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 key | det |
| 24 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 bunch | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bunch | det |
| 27 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bunch | amod |
| 28 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Trusty | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be | past | no way out death | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | way | the key | the big bunch | with a heavy heart and many sighs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent key=Theme from bunch=Initial_Location |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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