More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 133

He had long grey hair, and his teeth were curling out of his mouth, and his finger- and toe-nails had not been cut for many thousand years.

Who acts: man, teeth · What happens: have, curl, not cut · To what, where: long grey hair, mouth, finger

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, teeth), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
4	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 curling	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 curling	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 teeth	nmod:poss
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 curling	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 curling	aux
11	curling	curl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	advcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 mouth	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 mouth	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mouth	nmod:poss
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 curling	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cut	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cut	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 finger	nmod:poss
19	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cut	nsubj:pass
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 finger	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 nails	cc
22	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 nails	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 toe	punct
24	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 finger	conj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 cut	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 cut	advmod
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 cut	aux:pass
28	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	parataxis
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 years	case
30	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 thousand	amod
31	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 years	nummod
32	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 cut	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	man	long grey hair			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	curl	past · progressive	man's teeth		man's mouth		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out mouth=Destination
3	not cut	past · perfect · passive		man's finger and toe nails		year	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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