The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 53

She was rather alarmed, but the Prince reassured her, telling her it was the good Fairy to whom she owed so much, and who was now conducting her in safety to her mother.

Who acts: Prince, figure, Princess · What happens: alarm, reassure, tell, be, owe, conduct · To what, where: Princess, good Fairy, safety · 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 (Prince, figure, Princess), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 alarmed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alarmed	aux:pass
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 alarmed	advmod
4	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 reassured	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 reassured	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 reassured	nsubj
9	reassured	reassure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alarmed	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reassured	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 telling	punct
12	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 reassured	advcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 telling	iobj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 Fairy	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Fairy	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Fairy	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Fairy	amod
18	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 telling	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 whom	case
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 Fairy	nmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 owed	nsubj
22	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 whom	acl:relcl
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADV	_	22 owed	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 conducting	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 conducting	cc
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 conducting	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 conducting	aux
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 conducting	advmod
30	conducting	conduct	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 reassured	advcl
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 conducting	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 safety	case
33	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 conducting	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 mother	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mother	nmod:poss
36	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 safety	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 alarmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	alarm	past · passive		Princess				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	reassure	past	the Prince	Princess				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	the Prince not said here		Princess			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	is a	past	figure	the good Fairy				tree rules
5	owe	past	Princess					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
6	conduct	past · progressive		Princess		safety to Princess's mother	now	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in safety=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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