--- title: He stroked its feathers, and told it not to be afraid, for it was qu… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He stroked its feathers, and told it not to be afraid, for it was quite safe; but as he still felt its heart beating, he put it into a cage, where it soon plucked up courage to twitter and hop about. Who acts: man, bird. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, bird), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg5615:36:50 # text = He stroked its feathers, and told it not to be afraid, for it was quite safe; but as he still felt its heart beating, he put it into a cage, where it soon plucked up courage to twitter and hop about. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stroked stroke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 12 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 quite quite ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 still still ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 beating beating NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 cage cage NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 39 advmod _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 39 advmod _ _ 39 plucked pluck VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 40 up up ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 twitter twitter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 advcl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 hop hop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 conj _ _ 46 about about ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stroke** | past | man | bird's feathers | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Experiencer | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | man *not said here* | | bird | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **is** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | | | | | afraid *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | bird | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **feel** | past | man | bird's heart beating | | | still | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beating=Theme | | 6 | **put** | past | man | bird | | a cage | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 7 | **pluck up** | past | bird | courage | | | | soon *property* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient | | 8 | **twitter** | to-infinitive | bird *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **hop about** | infinitive | bird *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **beat** | | bird | | | | | | nom beating «act 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/36/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/36/51/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/36/)