The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 47

The parrot, finding she was not much alarmed, told her who he was, all that her mother had promised him and the help he had already received from a Fairy who had assured him that she would give him means to transport the Princess to her mother’s arms.

Who acts: parrot, mother, Fairy · What happens: find, not alarm, tell, promise, receive, assure · To what, where: mother, parrot, help, Princess, arms · 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, mother, Fairy), 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	11 told	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finding	punct
4	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 parrot	acl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 alarmed	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 alarmed	aux:pass
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 alarmed	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 alarmed	advmod
9	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 finding	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 parrot	punct
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 told	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 was	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 who	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 promised	punct
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 promised	det:predet
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 promised	mark
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 promised	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 promised	aux
22	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 told	parataxis
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 promised	iobj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 received	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 help	det
26	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 received	nsubj:pass
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 received	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 received	aux
29	already	already	ADV	_	30 received	advmod
30	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 promised	conj
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 Fairy	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 Fairy	det
33	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 received	obl
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 assured	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 assured	aux
36	assured	assure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 Fairy	acl:relcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 assured	iobj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 give	mark
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 give	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 give	aux
41	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 means	nsubj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 give	iobj
43	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 assured	parataxis
44	to	to	PART	_	45 transport	mark
45	transport	transport	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 means	xcomp
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Princess	det
47	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 transport	obj
48	to	to	ADP	_	52 arms	case
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 mother	nmod:poss
50	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 arms	nmod:poss
51	’s	's	PART	_	50 mother	case
52	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 transport	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	gerund	the parrot not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not alarm	past · passive		mother				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	tell speech: assert	past	the parrot		mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient who=Topic
4	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	mother's mother		parrot			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	receive	past · perfect · passive		the help			from a Fairy	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from fairy=Source
6	assure	past · perfect	a Fairy		parrot			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	give	would	mother		parrot			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	mean	present						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	transport not said to happen	to-infinitive		the Princess		mother's mother's arms		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme to arm=Destination

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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