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title: But the Prince was so deeply grieved, and apologised so very humbly,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by A
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 89

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg640:11:89
# text = 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.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	apologised	apologise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	humbly	humbly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	softened	soften	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	_
33	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
34	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
39	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	42	case	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	fixed	_	_
41	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	cop	_	_
42	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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:** «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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