The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 8

But poor Saphir was so unhappy, and begged so hard for forgiveness, that at last the Frog’s anger gave way, and she held up to him a tiny diamond stone.

Who acts: poor Saphir, anger, Frog · What happens: be, beg, give, hold up, anger · To what, where: that, last, way, tiny diamond stone, anger

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 (poor Saphir, anger, 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	_	6 unhappy	cc
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Saphir	amod
3	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 unhappy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unhappy	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 unhappy	advmod
6	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 begged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 begged	cc
9	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unhappy	parataxis
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 hard	advmod
11	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 begged	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 forgiveness	case
13	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 begged	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 that	punct
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 begged	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 begged	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Frog	det
19	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 anger	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Frog	case
21	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	nsubj
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 begged	conj
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 held	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 held	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 held	nsubj
27	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unhappy	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 held	compound:prt
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 held	obl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 stone	det
32	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 stone	amod
33	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stone	compound
34	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 held	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 unhappy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	poor Saphir				unhappy property	tree rules
2	beg speech: request	past		that		last	for forgiveness; hard property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for forgiveness=Topic
3	give	past	the Frog's anger	way				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
4	hold up	past	Frog	a tiny diamond stone	anger			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot stone=Theme
5	anger		the Frog					nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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