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title: She saluted the King gracefully, while a murmur of admiration rose f… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She saluted the King gracefully, while a murmur of admiration rose from all around. Who acts: crystal, murmur. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 24

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She saluted the King gracefully, while a murmur of admiration rose from all around.

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**Who acts:** crystal, murmur · **What happens:** salute, rise, murmur · **To what, where:** King, admiration

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:25:24
# text = She saluted the King gracefully, while a murmur of admiration rose from all around.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saluted	salute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	murmur	murmur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	around	around	ADV	RB	_	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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