The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 16

The Princess, who expected to be quite alone, was pleased at finding herself surrounded by a number of pretty girls, all anxious to wait on her, whilst a brilliantly-coloured parrot said the most agreeable things in the world.

Who acts: Princess, coloured parrot · What happens: expect, be, find, surround, wait, say · To what, where: Princess, agreeable things, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (Princess, coloured parrot), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 pleased	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 expected	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 expected	nsubj
5	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Princess	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	9 alone	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 alone	cop
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 alone	advmod
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 expected	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Princess	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pleased	cop
12	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	at	at	SCONJ	_	14 finding	mark
14	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 pleased	advcl
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 finding	obj
16	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 finding	xcomp
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 number	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 number	det
19	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 surrounded	obl:agent
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 girls	case
21	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 girls	amod
22	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 number	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 anxious	punct
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 anxious	det
25	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pleased	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 wait	mark
27	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 anxious	xcomp
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wait	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
31	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	37 said	mark
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 parrot	det
33	brilliantly	brilliantly	ADV	_	35 coloured	advmod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 brilliantly	punct
35	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 parrot	amod
36	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 said	nsubj
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 wait	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 things	det
39	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	40 agreeable	advmod
40	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 things	amod
41	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 said	obj
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 world	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 world	det
44	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 things	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	expect	past	the Princess				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here			alone property	tree rules
3	is	past	the Princess			pleased property	tree rules
4	find	gerund	the Princess not said here	Princess			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme
5	surround	participle	Princess not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	be		the Princess not said here				tree rules
7	wait	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here			on Princess	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on she=Location
8	say speech: assert	past	a coloured parrot	the agreeable things	the world		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in world=Manner

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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