More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 117

Her skin hung loose about her, all her flesh was gone, and she stared out of her great eyes as though she'd seen a ghost; and what was more, the fireplace in the kitchen was one great pile of wood-ash.

Who acts: skin, flesh, wind, one great pile, fireplace · What happens: hang, be, stare out, see · To what, where: great eyes, ghost, one great pile

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skin, flesh, wind, one great pile), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 skin	nmod:poss
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hung	nsubj
3	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	loose	loose	ADV	_	3 hung	advmod
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hung	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 flesh	det:predet
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 flesh	nmod:poss
10	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	cop
12	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hung	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stared	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stared	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stared	nsubj
16	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hung	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	21 eyes	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 eyes	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 eyes	amod
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stared	obl
22	as	as	ADV	_	16 stared	advmod
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 seen	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seen	nsubj
25	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	aux
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 stared	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 ghost	det
28	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seen	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 more	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 more	cc
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 more	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 more	cop
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 pile	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fireplace	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fireplace	det
36	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 pile	nsubj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 kitchen	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 kitchen	det
39	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fireplace	nmod
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 pile	cop
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 pile	nummod
42	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 pile	amod
43	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hung	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 ash	case
45	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 ash	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 wood	punct
47	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 pile	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hang	past	wind's skin		about wind; loose property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about she=Location
2	is	past	wind's flesh		gone property	tree rules
3	stare out	past	wind	wind's great eyes		tree rules
4	see	past · perfect	wind	a ghost		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ghost=Stimulus
5	is	past	one great pile		more property	tree rules
6	is a	past	the fireplace in the kitchen	one great pile	of wood ash	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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