The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 39

This soon reassured the Prince, and encouraged him to play his part well, and he began to say a thousand agreeable things which charmed the Princess.

Who acts: This, parrot, thousand agreeable things · What happens: reassure, encourage, play, begin, say, charm · To what, where: Prince, parrot, part, thousand agreeable things, Princess · 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 (This, parrot, thousand agreeable things), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 reassured	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 reassured	advmod
3	reassured	reassure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reassured	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 encouraged	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 encouraged	cc
8	encouraged	encourage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reassured	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 encouraged	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 play	mark
11	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 encouraged	xcomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 part	nmod:poss
13	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 play	obj
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 play	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reassured	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 say	mark
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thousand	det
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 things	nummod
23	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 things	amod
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 say	obj
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 charmed	nsubj
26	charmed	charm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 things	acl:relcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Princess	det
28	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 charmed	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reassured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reassure	past	This	the Prince	soon property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus prince=Experiencer
2	encourage	past	This not said here	parrot		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	parrot not said here	parrot's part	well property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
4	begin	past	parrot			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	parrot not said here	thousand agreeable things		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
6	charm	past	thousand agreeable things	the Princess		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=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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