The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 62
I put up my hand and discovered that I really had no head, and that I must have left it in the well.
Who acts: I · What happens: put up, discover, have, leave · To what, where: hand, head, well
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 put | compound:prt |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 discovered | cc |
| 7 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 10 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 had | advmod |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 discovered | ccomp |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 head | det |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 left | cc |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 left | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 left | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 left | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 left | aux |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 put | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 left | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 well | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 well | det |
| 24 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put up | past | I | my hand | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | ||||
| 2 | discover | past | I not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | past | I | no head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | must · perfect | I | head | the well | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in well=Location |
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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