The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 42

The parrot said so many clever and tender things to comfort her that she began to doubt whether this could indeed be her own parrot.

Who acts: parrot, Princess, this · What happens: say, comfort, begin, doubt, be · To what, where: many clever things, Princess, own parrot · 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 (parrot, Princess, this), 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 parrot	det
2	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tender	cc
8	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clever	conj
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 comfort	mark
11	comfort	comfort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 comfort	obj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 began	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 comfort	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 doubt	mark
17	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	25 parrot	mark
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 parrot	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 parrot	aux
21	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	25 parrot	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 parrot	cop
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 parrot	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 parrot	amod
25	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 doubt	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the parrot	many clever things		tree rules
2	comfort	to-infinitive		Princess		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
3	begin	past	Princess			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	doubt	to-infinitive	Princess not said here			vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	could	this	Princess's own parrot	indeed property	tree rules

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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