The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 72

‘And the lion answered slowly, “No, she would not.”

Who acts: ‘ · What happens: answer

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (‘), 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	‘	‘	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 lion	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lion	det
4	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ‘	conj
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 answered	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 would	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 would	punct
9	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	12 would	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 No	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 would	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	ccomp
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 would	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 would	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	‘ and the lion					slowly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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