The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 1

'It is very kind of you to say so,' answered the mother, who by this time had some secret doubts of its loveliness. '

Who acts: It, mother · What happens: be, say, answer, have, doubt · To what, where: mother, secret doubts, loveliness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, 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	_	5 kind	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kind	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 kind	advmod
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 kind	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 say	mark
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 kind	csubj
10	so	so	ADV	_	9 say	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mother	det
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 had	nsubj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 time	case
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 time	det
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obl
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 mother	conj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 doubts	det
23	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 doubts	amod
24	doubts	doubt	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 had	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 loveliness	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 loveliness	nmod:poss
27	loveliness	loveliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 doubts	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				of you; kind property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	past			the mother			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality
4	have	past	the mother	some secret doubts of its loveliness		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient
5	doubt			its loveliness				nom doubt «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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