More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 97

If he had cursed before, his curses were enough to raise the hair on your head.

Who acts: fishing, curses · What happens: curse, be, raise · To what, where: hair, head

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishing, curses), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 cursed	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cursed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cursed	aux
4	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 enough	advcl
5	before	before	ADV	_	4 cursed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cursed	punct
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 curses	nmod:poss
8	curses	curse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 enough	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 enough	cop
10	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 raise	mark
12	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 enough	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hair	det
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 raise	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 head	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 raise	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 enough	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	curse a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	fishing			before property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	fishing's curses			enough property	tree rules
3	raise	to-infinitive	fishing's curses not said here	the hair	your head		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hair=Theme on head=Destination
4	curse		fishing				nom curse «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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