The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 38

The Princess was surprised and anxious, and fearing the parrot, who was her greatest comfort, had fallen ill, she took him in her hand and caressed him.

Who acts: Princess, parrot · What happens: be, fear, fall, take, caress · To what, where: parrot, greatest comfort, hand

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, 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	4 surprised	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 surprised	cop
4	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 anxious	cc
6	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 surprised	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fallen	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fallen	cc
9	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 fallen	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 parrot	det
11	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fearing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 comfort	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 comfort	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 comfort	cop
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 comfort	nmod:poss
16	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 comfort	amod
17	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 parrot	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fearing	punct
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fallen	aux
20	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 surprised	conj
21	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fallen	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 surprised	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 hand	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hand	nmod:poss
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 caressed	cc
30	caressed	caress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 caressed	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Princess			surprised property	tree rules
2	be		the Princess not said here				tree rules
3	fear	gerund		the parrot and Princess's greatest comfort			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parrot=Stimulus
4	is a	past	the parrot and Princess's greatest comfort	Princess's greatest comfort			tree rules
5	fall	past · perfect	the Princess not said here			ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	take	past	Princess	parrot	Princess's hand		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in hand=Location
7	caress	past	Princess not said here	parrot			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer

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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