The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 85

'You are really very kind,' answered the lion.

Who acts: You · What happens: be, 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: who acts (You), 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	_	6 kind	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 kind	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 kind	advmod
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kind	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 kind	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lion	det
11	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You					kind property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	You not said here		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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