The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 32

The secret of the King remained a secret, though his grave, careworn expression escaped no one’s notice.

Who acts: secret, grave, one · What happens: remain, escape, notice · To what, where: secret, notice

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (secret, grave, one), 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	2 secret	det
2	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remained	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 King	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 secret	nmod
6	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 secret	det
8	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remained	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 escaped	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 escaped	mark
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 grave	nmod:poss
12	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 escaped	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 expression	punct
14	careworn	careworn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 expression	compound
15	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grave	conj
16	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 remained	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 notice	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 one	case
20	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 escaped	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	remain	past	the secret of the King	a secret	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme secret=Attribute
2	escape	past	KING's grave and careworn expression	no one's notice	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme notice=Initial_Location
3	notice		no one		nom notice «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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