The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 78

'Pray sit down,' answered the lion. '

What happens: sit down, answer · To what, where: lion

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 sit	punct
2	Pray	pray	PART	_	3 sit	mark
3	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sit	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lion	det
9	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	imperative							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: assert	past			the lion				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lion=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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