The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 25

So Felicia came forward and saluted the Queen timidly, but with so much grace that all were surprised.

Who acts: Felicia, much grace · What happens: come forward, salute, be · To what, where: Queen

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Felicia, much grace), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	Felicia	Felicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forward	forward	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 saluted	cc
6	saluted	salute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Queen	det
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 saluted	obj
9	timidly	timidly	ADV	_	6 saluted	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grace	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 grace	cc
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 grace	case
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grace	amod
15	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saluted	parataxis
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 surprised	nsubj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 surprised	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 surprised	cop
19	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grace	acl:relcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come forward	past	Felicia		forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	salute	past	Felicia not said here	the Queen	timidly property	vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Topic
3	is	past	much grace		surprised property	tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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