The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 89

But the Prince was so deeply grieved, and apologised so very humbly, that after some time the heart of the good little Frog was softened, and she gave him another tiny little grain, but instead of being sand it was now a grain of gold.

Who acts: gate, FROG · What happens: grieve, apologise, soften, give, be · To what, where: Prince, heart, tiny little grain, Saphir, grain

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate, FROG), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 grieved	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 grieved	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grieved	aux
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 grieved	advmod
6	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	7 grieved	advmod
7	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 apologised	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 apologised	cc
10	apologised	apologise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grieved	parataxis
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 humbly	advmod
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 humbly	advmod
13	humbly	humbly	ADV	_	10 apologised	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 softened	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 softened	mark
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 time	case
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 softened	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 heart	det
20	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 softened	nsubj:pass
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 Frog	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Frog	det
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Frog	amod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Frog	amod
25	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 heart	nmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 softened	aux:pass
27	softened	soften	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 apologised	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gave	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 gave	cc
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gave	nsubj
31	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grieved	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gave	iobj
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	36 grain	det
34	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 grain	amod
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 grain	amod
36	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gave	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 grain	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 grain	cc
39	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	42 sand	case
40	of	of	ADP	_	39 instead	fixed
41	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 sand	cop
42	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 grain	obl
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 grain	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 grain	cop
45	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 grain	advmod
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 grain	det
47	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gave	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 gold	case
49	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 grain	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grieved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grieve	past · passive		the Prince			deeply property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	apologise speech: apologize	past					humbly property	tree rules
3	soften	past · passive		the heart of the good little Frog		time		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	give	past	gate	another tiny little grain	Saphir			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient grain=Theme
5	is	gerund					instead sand	tree rules
6	is a	past	FROG	a grain		now	of gold	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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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