The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 55

'Willingly, mother,' answered the girl.

Who acts: mother · What happens: answer · To what, where: girl

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	_	4 mother	punct
2	Willingly	willingly	ADV	_	4 mother	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Willingly	punct
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	mother		the girl				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent girl=Eventuality

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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