The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 91

Their bodies were like sealskin jackets on a very stout person; their heads were like sealskin muffs; their legs were like sealskin boas; and their hands and feet were like sealskin tobacco pouches.

Who acts: bodies, heads, legs, hands · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, 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 (bodies, heads, legs, hands), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bodies	nmod:poss
2	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jackets	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 jackets	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 jackets	case
5	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jackets	compound
6	jackets	jacket	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 person	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 person	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 stout	advmod
10	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 person	amod
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jackets	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 muffs	punct
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 heads	nmod:poss
14	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 muffs	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 muffs	cop
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 muffs	case
17	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 muffs	compound
18	muffs	muff	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jackets	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 boas	punct
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 legs	nmod:poss
21	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 boas	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 boas	cop
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 boas	case
24	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 boas	compound
25	boas	boa	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 muffs	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 pouches	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 pouches	cc
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hands	nmod:poss
29	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 pouches	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 feet	cc
31	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hands	conj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 pouches	cop
33	like	like	ADP	_	36 pouches	case
34	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tobacco	compound
35	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pouches	compound
36	pouches	pouch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jackets	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 jackets	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	dwarfs's bodies	like sealskin jackets and sealskin muffs and sealskin boas and tobacco pouches; on a stout person	tree rules
2	is	past	dwarfs's heads	like sealskin muffs and sealskin boas	tree rules
3	is	past	dwarfs's legs	like sealskin boas	tree rules
4	is	past	dwarfs's hands and feet	like tobacco pouches	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: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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