More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 56

T was no bigger than a year-old baby, but it had long cotted hair and beard, twisted round and round its body so that you couldn't see its clothes; and the hair was all yaller and shining and silky, like a bairn's; but the face of it was old and as if 't were hundreds of years since 't was young and smooth.

Who acts: T, you, hair, face · What happens: not be, cot, twist, not see, be, shine · To what, where: t, body, clothes

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (T, you, hair, face), 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	T	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bigger	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bigger	cop
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 bigger	advmod
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	10 baby	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 baby	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 old	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 year	punct
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 baby	amod
10	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bigger	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cotted	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 cotted	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cotted	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cotted	aux
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 cotted	advmod
16	cotted	cot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bigger	conj
17	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cotted	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 beard	cc
19	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hair	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 twisted	punct
21	twisted	twist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 cotted	conj
22	round	round	ADV	_	21 twisted	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 round	cc
24	round	round	ADV	_	22 round	conj
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 body	nmod:poss
26	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 twisted	obl
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 see	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 see	aux
31	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 see	advmod
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 twisted	advcl
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 clothes	nmod:poss
34	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	32 see	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 yaller	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 yaller	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 hair	det
38	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 yaller	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 yaller	cop
40	all	all	ADV	_	41 yaller	advmod
41	yaller	yall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bigger	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 shining	cc
43	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 yaller	conj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 silky	cc
45	silky	silky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 yaller	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 bairn	punct
47	like	like	ADP	_	49 bairn	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 bairn	det
49	bairn	bairn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bigger	obl
50	's	's	PART	_	49 bairn	case
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 old	punct
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	58 old	cc
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 face	det
54	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 old	nsubj
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 it	case
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 face	nmod
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 old	cop
58	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bigger	conj
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 hundreds	cc
60	as	as	ADP	_	65 hundreds	case
61	if	if	SCONJ	_	65 hundreds	mark
62	'	'	PUNCT	_	63 t	punct
63	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 hundreds	compound
64	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 hundreds	cop
65	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 old	conj
66	of	of	ADP	_	67 years	case
67	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 hundreds	nmod
68	since	since	SCONJ	_	72 young	mark
69	'	'	PUNCT	_	72 young	punct
70	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 young	nsubj
71	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	72 young	cop
72	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 old	advcl
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	74 smooth	cc
74	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 young	conj
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bigger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	T			than a old baby; like a bairn; big property	tree rules
2	cot	past · perfect · passive		t		long property	tree rules
3	twist	participle		t's body		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	not see	could	you	t's clothes			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clothes=Stimulus
5	is	past	the hair			all, yall property	tree rules
6	shine	gerund	the hair not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	be		the hair not said here				tree rules
8	is	past	the face of t			old property	tree rules
9	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the face of t not said here		year	as t hundreds	tree rules
10	is	past	t			young property	tree rules
11	be		t not said here				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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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