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title: When his master was changed into a frog, trusty Henry had grieved so… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: When his master was changed into a frog, trusty Henry had grieved so much that he had bound three iron bands around his heart, for fear it should break with grief and sorrow. Who acts: trusty Henry, Henry, master. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog Prince, with its depend
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 49

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When his master was changed into a frog, trusty Henry had grieved so much that he had bound three iron bands around his heart, for fear it should break with grief and sorrow.

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**Who acts:** trusty Henry, Henry, master · **What happens:** change, grieve, bind, break · **To what, where:** master, frog, three iron bands, heart

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trusty Henry, Henry, master), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:21:49
# text = When his master was changed into a frog, trusty Henry had grieved so much that he had bound three iron bands around his heart, for fear it should break with grief and sorrow.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	trusty	trusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	around	around	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past · passive |  | King's master |  |  |  | into a frog *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into frog=Result |
| 2 | **grieve** | past · perfect | trusty Henry | a frog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus frog=Experiencer |
| 3 | **bind** | past · perfect | Henry | three iron bands |  | Henry's heart |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Patient |
| 4 | **break** | should | master |  |  |  |  | for fear; with grief and sorrow | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with grief=Instrument |

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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.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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