The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 74
She flew with her feet, and walked with her wings; her head was in her back, and her tail was on top of her body; her eyes were in her neck, and her neck in her forehead, and how to describe her further I do not know.
Who acts: sun, head, tail, eyes, I · What happens: fly, walk, be, describe, not know · To what, where: back, top, neck, sun
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 (sun, head, tail, eyes), 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 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 feet | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flew | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 walked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 walked | cc |
| 8 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 wings | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wings | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 walked | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 back | punct |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 back | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 back | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 back | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 back | nmod:poss |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 top | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 top | cc |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tail | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 top | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 top | cop |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 top | case |
| 25 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 back | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 body | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 body | nmod:poss |
| 28 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 top | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 neck | punct |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 31 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 neck | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 neck | cop |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 neck | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 neck | nmod:poss |
| 35 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 back | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 neck | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 neck | cc |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 neck | nmod:poss |
| 39 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 forehead | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 42 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 neck | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 describe | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 describe | cc |
| 45 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 47 describe | advmod |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 describe | mark |
| 47 | describe | describe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | parataxis |
| 48 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 describe | obj |
| 49 | further | further | ADV | _ | 53 know | advmod |
| 50 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 53 know | nsubj |
| 51 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 know | aux |
| 52 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 53 know | advmod |
| 53 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 describe | advcl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | sun | with sun's feet | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | sun not said here | with sun's wings | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | sun's head | sun's back and sun's neck | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | sun's tail | top | of sun's body | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | past | sun's eyes | sun's neck | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | describe | to-infinitive | sun | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not know | present · do-support | I | further property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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