The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 90

Indeed, he prayed so earnestly that the prince’s heart was touched, for he was a tender-hearted boy who pitied the sorrows of other people.

Who acts: prince, hearted boy, other people · What happens: pray, touch, be, pity, sorrow · To what, where: heart, hearted boy, sorrows

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, hearted boy, other people), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 prayed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 prayed	nsubj
4	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 earnestly	advmod
6	earnestly	earnestly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 prayed	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 touched	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heart	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 prince	case
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 touched	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 touched	aux:pass
13	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 earnestly	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 boy	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 boy	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 boy	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 boy	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 boy	det
19	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hearted	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 tender	punct
21	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boy	amod
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 touched	obl:agent
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 pitied	nsubj
24	pitied	pity	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 boy	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sorrows	det
26	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 pitied	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 people	case
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 people	amod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sorrows	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 prayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pray	past	prince		earnestly, indeed property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	touch	past · passive	a hearted boy	the prince's heart		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme
3	is a	past	prince	a hearted boy		tree rules
4	pity	past	a hearted boy	the sorrows of other people		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sorrow=Stimulus
5	sorrow		other people			nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: of=agent

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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