More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 57

Just a heap of wrinkles, and two bright black eyne in the midst, set in a lot of shining yaller hair; and the skin was the colour of the fresh turned earth in the spring--brown as brown could be, and its bare hands and feet were brown like the face of it.

Who acts: two, lot, skin, fresh · What happens: eyne, set, shine, be, turn, brown · To what, where: midst, lot, yaller hair, colour, earth, heap

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 (two, lot, skin, fresh), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	3 heap	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 heap	det
3	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 brown	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wrinkles	case
5	wrinkles	wrinkle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heap	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eyne	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 eyne	cc
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 eyne	nsubj
9	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eyne	amod
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eyne	amod
11	eyne	eyne	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heap	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 midst	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 midst	det
14	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eyne	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
16	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 midst	acl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 lot	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lot	det
19	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obl
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 shining	mark
21	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 lot	acl
22	yaller	yaller	X	_	23 hair	compound
23	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shining	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 colour	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 colour	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 skin	det
27	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 colour	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 colour	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 colour	det
30	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heap	conj
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	34 turned	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fresh	det
33	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 turned	nsubj
34	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 colour	advcl
35	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 turned	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 spring	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 spring	det
38	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 turned	obl
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 brown	punct
40	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 colour	conj
41	as	as	ADP	_	42 brown	case
42	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 brown	obl
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 brown	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 brown	aux:pass
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 brown	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 brown	cc
47	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 hands	nmod:poss
48	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 hands	amod
49	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 brown	nsubj:pass
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 feet	cc
51	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 hands	conj
52	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 brown	aux:pass
53	brown	brown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
54	like	like	ADP	_	56 face	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 face	det
56	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 brown	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 it	case
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 face	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	53 brown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eyne		two		the midst			tree rules
2	set	participle		the midst not said here	a lot			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in lot=Destination
3	shine	gerund	a lot not said here	yaller hair				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
4	is a	past	the skin	the colour				tree rules
5	turn	past	the fresh	earth		spring		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=Theme
6	be		the skin not said here				as brown	tree rules
7	brown	could · passive		a heap of wrinkles and bright black eyne and the colour			like the face of face	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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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