The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 2

He was so vexed with his own folly, and so taken aback at the disaster, that he did not attempt to explain his conduct, and things would have gone badly with him if his friends the fairies had not softened the hearts of his captors, so that they once more allowed him to leave quietly.

Who acts: Prince, friends · What happens: vex, take, not attempt, not explain, go, not soften · To what, where: Prince, disaster, conduct, things, hearts

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, friends), 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	4 vexed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vexed	aux:pass
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 vexed	advmod
4	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 folly	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 folly	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 folly	amod
8	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vexed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 taken	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 taken	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 taken	advmod
12	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 vexed	conj
13	aback	aback	ADV	_	12 taken	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 disaster	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 disaster	det
16	disaster	disaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taken	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 attempt	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 attempt	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 attempt	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 attempt	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 attempt	advmod
22	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 taken	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 explain	mark
24	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 attempt	xcomp
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 conduct	nmod:poss
26	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 explain	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gone	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gone	cc
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 gone	nsubj:pass
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 gone	aux
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 gone	aux
32	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 vexed	conj
33	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 gone	advmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gone	obl
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 softened	mark
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 friends	nmod:poss
38	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 softened	nsubj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 fairies	det
40	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 friends	conj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 softened	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 softened	advmod
43	softened	soften	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 gone	advcl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 hearts	det
45	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 softened	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 captors	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 captors	nmod:poss
48	captors	captor	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 hearts	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 allowed	punct
50	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	55 allowed	mark
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 so	fixed
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 allowed	nsubj
53	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	54 more	advmod
54	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	55 allowed	advmod
55	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 softened	conj
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 allowed	iobj
57	to	to	PART	_	58 leave	mark
58	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 allowed	xcomp
59	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	58 leave	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 vexed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	vex	past · passive		Prince			with Prince's own folly	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	take	participle				the disaster	aback property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at disaster=Asset
3	not attempt	past · do-support	Prince					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	not explain speech: assert	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	Prince's conduct				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Topic
5	go	would · perfect · passive		things			with Prince; badly property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
6	not soften a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Prince's friends and the fairies	the hearts of Prince's captors				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
7	allow	past	friends = friend		Prince			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
8	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	friends = friend not said here				quietly property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	conduct		Prince					nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=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 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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