--- title: The Princess was surprised and anxious, and fearing the parrot, who… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Princess was surprised and anxious, and fearing the parrot, who was her greatest comfort, had fallen ill, she took him in her hand and caressed him. Who acts: Princess, parrot. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/38/) [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/) / 38 # The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 38 The Princess was surprised and anxious, and fearing the parrot, who was her greatest comfort, had fallen ill, she took him in her hand and caressed him. **Who acts:** Princess, parrot · **What happens:** be, fear, fall, take, caress · **To what, where:** parrot, greatest comfort, hand 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, 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:pg640:20:38 # text = The Princess was surprised and anxious, and fearing the parrot, who was her greatest comfort, had fallen ill, she took him in her hand and caressed him. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 anxious anxious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 9 fearing fear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ _ 17 comfort comfort NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 21 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 caressed caress VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the Princess | | | | | surprised *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fear** | gerund | | the parrot and Princess's greatest comfort | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parrot=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** | past | the parrot and Princess's greatest comfort | Princess's greatest comfort | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fall** | past · perfect | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | ill *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **take** | past | Princess | parrot | | Princess's hand | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in hand=Location | | 7 | **caress** | past | Princess *not said here* | parrot | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer | 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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/39/) - ↑ back to [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/)