The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 43

When he saw her well-disposed towards him, he exclaimed: ‘Madam, I have a most important secret to confide to you, and I beg you not to be alarmed by what I am about to say.

Who acts: parrot, I · What happens: see, dispose, exclaim, have, confide, beg · To what, where: Princess, Madam, important secret, you · 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, I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 exclaimed	advcl
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 disposed	advmod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 well	punct
7	disposed	dispose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 saw	ccomp
8	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 disposed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 exclaimed	nsubj
12	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Madam	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Madam	punct
15	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exclaimed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 exclaimed	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 secret	det
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 important	advmod
21	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 secret	amod
22	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 confide	mark
24	confide	confide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 secret	acl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 confide	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 beg	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 beg	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 beg	nsubj
30	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 have	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 beg	obj
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 alarmed	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	35 alarmed	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 alarmed	aux:pass
35	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 beg	advcl
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 what	case
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 alarmed	obl
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 say	nsubj
39	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 say	aux
40	about	about	ADV	_	42 say	advmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 say	mark
42	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 what	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	parrot	Princess			tree rules
2	dispose	participle				towards parrot; well property	vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent
3	exclaim speech: express	past	parrot	Madam			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	have	present	I	a important secret			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Patient
5	confide speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here	a important secret not said here	you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient
6	beg speech: request	present	I		you		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
7	not alarm	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
8	say speech: assert	present	I			about property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 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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