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title: The parrot, finding she was not much alarmed, told her who he was, a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 47

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The parrot, finding she was not much alarmed, told her who he was, all that her mother had promised him and the help he had already received from a Fairy who had assured him that she would give him means to transport the Princess to her mother’s arms.

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**Who acts:** parrot, mother, Fairy · **What happens:** find, not alarm, tell, promise, receive, assure · **To what, where:** mother, parrot, help, Princess, arms · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (parrot, mother, Fairy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg640:20:47
# text = The parrot, finding she was not much alarmed, told her who he was, all that her mother had promised him and the help he had already received from a Fairy who had assured him that she would give him means to transport the Princess to her mother’s arms.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	alarmed	alarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	parataxis	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	already	already	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	assured	assure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	iobj	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	nsubj	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	iobj	_	_
43	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	transport	transport	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	’s	's	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund | the parrot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **alarm** | past · passive |  | mother |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the parrot |  | mother |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient who=Topic |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | mother's mother |  | parrot |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **receive** | past · perfect · passive |  | the help |  |  |  | from a Fairy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from fairy=Source |
| 6 | **assure** | past · perfect | a Fairy |  | parrot |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 7 | **give** | would | mother |  | parrot |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 8 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **transport** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the Princess |  | mother's mother's arms |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme to arm=Destination |

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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.

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**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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