The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 69
‘Or what is it you are always turning round for?’
Who acts: destination, you · What happens: be, turn round
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (destination, you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 2 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 what | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 turning | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 is | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 turning | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 turning | aux |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 turning | advmod |
| 9 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | round | round | ADV | _ | 9 turning | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 turning | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 turning | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | destination | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn round | present · progressive | you | always, round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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