Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 10

Their arms were long and skinny and muscular, and at the end of each finger they had a spiked nail that was as hard as horn and as sharp as a briar.

Who acts: arms, mouths, spiked nail · What happens: be, have, spike · To what, where: spiked nail, end

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arms, mouths, spiked nail), 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 arms	nmod:poss
2	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 long	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 skinny	cc
6	skinny	skinny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 muscular	cc
8	muscular	muscular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 finger	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 finger	det
16	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 end	nmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 nail	det
20	spiked	spike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 nail	amod
21	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 hard	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 hard	cop
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 hard	advmod
25	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 nail	acl:relcl
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 horn	case
27	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hard	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sharp	cc
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 sharp	advmod
30	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hard	conj
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 briar	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 briar	det
33	briar	briar	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sharp	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	mouths's arms			long property	tree rules
2	be		mouths's arms not said here				tree rules
3	be		mouths's arms not said here				tree rules
4	have	past	mouths = mouth	a spiked nail	at the end of each finger		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient
5	spike	participle					tree rules
6	is	past	a spiked nail			as horn; hard property	tree rules
7	be		a spiked nail not said here			as a briar	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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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