The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 50

He stroked its feathers, and told it not to be afraid, for it was quite safe; but as he still felt its heart beating, he put it into a cage, where it soon plucked up courage to twitter and hop about.

Who acts: man, bird · What happens: stroke, tell, not be, be, feel, put · To what, where: feathers, bird, heart beating, cage, courage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, bird), 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	2 stroked	nsubj
2	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 feathers	nmod:poss
4	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stroked	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stroked	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	obj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 afraid	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	12 afraid	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 afraid	cop
12	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 told	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 safe	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 safe	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 safe	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 safe	cop
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 safe	advmod
18	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 afraid	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 put	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 felt	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 felt	nsubj
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 felt	advmod
24	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 put	advcl
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 beating	nmod:poss
26	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beating	compound
27	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 felt	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 felt	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 put	nsubj
30	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stroked	parataxis
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 put	obj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 cage	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 cage	det
34	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 plucked	punct
36	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 plucked	advmod
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 plucked	nsubj
38	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 plucked	advmod
39	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 put	conj
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 plucked	compound:prt
41	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 plucked	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 twitter	mark
43	twitter	twitter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 plucked	advcl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 hop	cc
45	hop	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 twitter	conj
46	about	about	ADV	_	45 hop	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stroked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stroke	past	man	bird's feathers					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	man not said here		bird				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
3	not is	to-infinitive	man not said here					afraid property	tree rules
4	is	past	bird					safe property	tree rules
5	feel	past	man	bird's heart beating			still		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beating=Theme
6	put	past	man	bird		a cage			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
7	pluck up	past	bird	courage				soon property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient
8	twitter	to-infinitive	bird not said here						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	hop about	infinitive	bird not said here					about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	beat		bird						nom beating «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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