The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 6

And she said a great deal, for she had worked herself into a terrible passion; but the Prince humbly implored her pardon, and ventured to point out that it would have been very hard to refuse the young lady’s reasonable request.

Who acts: Frog, Prince, it, young lady · What happens: say, work, implore, venture, point out, be · To what, where: great deal, Frog, terrible passion, pardon, reasonable request · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Frog, Prince, it, young lady), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deal	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deal	amod
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 worked	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 worked	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 worked	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 worked	aux
11	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	conj
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 worked	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	16 passion	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 passion	det
15	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 passion	amod
16	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worked	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 implored	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 implored	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Prince	det
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 implored	nsubj
21	humbly	humbly	ADV	_	22 implored	advmod
22	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 pardon	nmod:poss
24	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 implored	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ventured	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ventured	cc
27	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 implored	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 point	mark
29	point	point	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 ventured	xcomp
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 point	compound:prt
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 hard	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 hard	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 hard	aux
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 hard	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 hard	cop
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 hard	advmod
37	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 point	ccomp
38	to	to	PART	_	39 refuse	mark
39	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 hard	xcomp
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 lady	det
41	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 lady	amod
42	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 request	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 lady	case
44	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 request	amod
45	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 refuse	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Frog	a great deal			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent deal=Topic
2	work	past · perfect	Frog	Frog	a terrible passion		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent herself=Material into passion=Product
3	implore	past	the Prince	Frog's pardon		humbly property	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
4	venture	past	the Prince not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	point out	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	would · perfect	it			hard property	tree rules
7	refuse	to-infinitive		the young lady's reasonable request			vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme
8	pardon		Frog				nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent
9	request		the young lady				nom request «communication 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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