Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 75

His hair covered almost all his face, his beard appeared like a piece of dirty cloth, his nails were claws, and his countenance was so covered with dirt that one might have grown cresses upon it if one had sown seed!

Who acts: hair, nails · What happens: cover, appear, be, grow, sow · To what, where: face, claws, countenance, one

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, nails), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hair	nmod:poss
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 appeared	nsubj
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hair	acl
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 all	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 face	det:predet
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 appeared	punct
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 beard	nmod:poss
10	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 appeared	nsubj
11	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 piece	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 piece	det
14	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 appeared	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 cloth	case
16	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cloth	amod
17	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 piece	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 claws	punct
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 nails	nmod:poss
20	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 claws	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 claws	cop
22	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 piece	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 covered	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 covered	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 countenance	nmod:poss
26	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 covered	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 covered	aux:pass
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 covered	advmod
29	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 appeared	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 dirt	case
31	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 covered	obl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 grown	mark
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 grown	nsubj:pass
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 grown	aux
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 grown	aux
36	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 covered	conj
37	cresses	cress	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 grown	obj
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 grown	obl
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 sown	mark
41	one	one	PRON	PronType=Ind	43 sown	nsubj:pass
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 sown	aux
43	sown	sow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 grown	advcl
44	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sown	obj
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cover	participle	soldier's hair not said here	soldier's face		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Destination
2	appear	past	soldier's hair		like a piece of dirty cloth and claws	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	soldier's nails	claws		tree rules
4	cover	past · passive		soldier's countenance	with dirt	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with dirt=Theme
5	grow	might · perfect · passive		one	upon countenance	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary cress=Product
6	sow a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		one		tree rules

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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