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title: Then Trusty John saw there was no way out of it, so with a heavy hea… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 22

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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.

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**Who acts:** Trusty, way · **What happens:** see, be, take · **To what, where:** key, big bunch · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:41:22
# text = 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.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Trusty	Trusty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sighs	sigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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