--- title: The Princess, who expected to be quite alone, was pleased at finding… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Princess, who expected to be quite alone, was pleased at finding herself surrounded by a number of pretty girls, all anxious to wait on her, whilst a brilliantly-coloured parrot said the most agreeable things in the world. Who acts: Princess, coloured parrot. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/) / 16 # The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 16 The Princess, who expected to be quite alone, was pleased at finding herself surrounded by a number of pretty girls, all anxious to wait on her, whilst a brilliantly-coloured parrot said the most agreeable things in the world. **Who acts:** Princess, coloured parrot · **What happens:** expect, be, find, surround, wait, say · **To what, where:** Princess, agreeable things, world · **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 (Princess, coloured parrot), 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:pg640:20:16 # text = The Princess, who expected to be quite alone, was pleased at finding herself surrounded by a number of pretty girls, all anxious to wait on her, whilst a brilliantly-coloured parrot said the most agreeable things in the world. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 expected expect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 8 quite quite ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 alone alone ADV RB _ 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 at at SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 15 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 16 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 xcomp _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:agent _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 anxious anxious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 31 whilst whilst SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 33 brilliantly brilliantly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 40 advmod _ _ 40 agreeable agreeable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **expect** | past | the Princess | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | alone *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | the Princess | | | | | pleased *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* | Princess | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme | | 5 | **surround** | participle | Princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **be** | | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **wait** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | on Princess | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on she=Location | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a coloured parrot | the agreeable things | | the world | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in world=Manner | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/17/) - ↑ back to [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/)