The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 6
The unknown knight then saluted her gracefully and retired, without telling his name to anybody.
Who acts: unknown knight, King · What happens: salute, tell, name · To what, where: Graciosa, name, anybody · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, 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 (unknown knight, King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 2 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knight | amod |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saluted | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 saluted | advmod |
| 5 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saluted | obj |
| 7 | gracefully | gracefully | ADV | _ | 5 saluted | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 retired | cc |
| 9 | retired | retired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gracefully | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 telling | punct |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 telling | mark |
| 12 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saluted | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 name | nmod:poss |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 telling | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 anybody | case |
| 16 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 telling | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saluted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | salute | past | the unknown knight | Graciosa | then | gracefully property | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the unknown knight not said here | King's name | anybody | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Topic to anybody=Recipient | |||
| 3 | name | King | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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