The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 13

The third Fairy comforted the poor traveller, begged her not to lose heart, and assured her that her troubles should be rewarded.

Who acts: third Fairy, Fairy · What happens: comfort, beg, not lose, assure, reward, trouble · To what, where: poor traveller, Fairy, heart, troubles

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third Fairy, 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	3 Fairy	det
2	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 Fairy	amod
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 comforted	nsubj
4	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 traveller	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 traveller	amod
7	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comforted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 begged	punct
9	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 comforted	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 begged	obj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 lose	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 lose	mark
13	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 begged	xcomp
14	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lose	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 assured	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 assured	cc
17	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 comforted	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 assured	iobj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 rewarded	mark
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 troubles	nmod:poss
21	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rewarded	nsubj:pass
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 rewarded	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 rewarded	aux:pass
24	rewarded	reward	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 assured	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 comforted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	comfort	past	the third Fairy	the poor traveller		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus traveller=Experiencer
2	beg speech: request	past	the third Fairy not said here		Fairy	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not lose not said to happen	to-infinitive	the third Fairy not said here	heart		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality
4	assure	past	the third Fairy not said here		Fairy	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	reward	should · passive		Fairy's troubles		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
6	trouble		Fairy			nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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