The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 15

She had a mane like a horse, horns like a deer, a face like a bear, eyes like a polecat; while her body had something of each.

Who acts: earth, body · What happens: have · To what, where: mane, something

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, body), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mane	det
4	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 horse	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 horns	punct
9	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 horse	nmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 deer	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 deer	det
12	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 horns	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 face	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 face	det
15	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 horns	conj
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 bear	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bear	det
18	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 face	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eyes	punct
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 horns	conj
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 polecat	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 polecat	det
23	polecat	polecat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eyes	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 had	mark
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 body	nmod:poss
27	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
29	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 had	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 each	case
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	29 something	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	earth	a mane				like a horse horns like a deer and a face like a bear and eyes like a polecat	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mane=Patient
2	have	past	earth's body	something					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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 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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