The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 48

‘Good evening!’ said the Soldier and saluted, for he had never seen a dog like this before.

Who acts: Soldier · What happens: say, salute, not see · To what, where: dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 evening	amod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Soldier	det
8	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saluted	cc
10	saluted	salute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 seen	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seen	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 seen	advmod
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 saluted	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dog	det
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	obj
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 this	case
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 seen	obl
21	before	before	ADV	_	16 seen	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Soldier			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	salute	past	the Soldier not said here			vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not see	past · perfect	soldier	a dog	like this; before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus

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.

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