The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 13

She had not exactly a head, yet neither was she without one.

Who acts: earth, neither · What happens: have, be · To what, where: head

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, neither), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 head	advmod
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 head	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 head	det
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
8	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	13 one	cc
9	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	13 one	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 one	cop
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 one	nsubj
12	without	without	ADP	_	13 one	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 had	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	earth	a head					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	is	past	neither					without one	tree rules

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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