The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 70
‘I turn round because I have no eyes in the back of my neck,’ said Hans.
Who acts: I, Hans · What happens: turn round, have, say · To what, where: eyes, back · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, Hans), 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 turn | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 turn | advmod |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 turn | advcl |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 eyes | det |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 back | det |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 neck | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 neck | nmod:poss |
| 15 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 back | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turn | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 turn | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | present | I | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | no eyes | the back of my neck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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