The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 24
She saluted the King gracefully, while a murmur of admiration rose from all around.
Who acts: crystal, murmur · What happens: salute, rise, murmur · To what, where: King, admiration
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crystal, murmur), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saluted | nsubj |
| 2 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 saluted | obj |
| 5 | gracefully | gracefully | ADV | _ | 2 saluted | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rose | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 rose | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 murmur | det |
| 9 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rose | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 admiration | case |
| 11 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 murmur | nmod |
| 12 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saluted | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 around | case |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 around | advmod |
| 15 | around | around | ADV | _ | 12 rose | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saluted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | salute | past | crystal | the King | gracefully property | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic | |||
| 2 | rise | past | a murmur of admiration | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from around=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | murmur | admiration | nom murmur «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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