Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 11

Their bodies were covered with a bristle of hair and fur and fluff, so that they looked like dogs in some parts and like cats in others, and in other parts again they looked like chickens.

Who acts: mouths · What happens: cover, look · To what, where: bodies

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 (mouths), 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	4 covered	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	aux:pass
4	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 bristle	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bristle	det
7	bristle	bristle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 hair	case
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bristle	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fur	cc
11	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bristle	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fluff	cc
13	fluff	fluff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fur	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 looked	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 so	fixed
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	conj
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 dogs	case
20	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 looked	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 parts	case
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 parts	det
23	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 looked	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cats	cc
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 cats	case
26	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 parts	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 others	case
28	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 cats	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 looked	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 looked	cc
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 parts	case
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 parts	amod
33	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 looked	obl
34	again	again	ADV	_	36 looked	advmod
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 looked	nsubj
36	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	parataxis
37	like	like	ADP	_	38 chickens	case
38	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 looked	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		mouths's bodies		with a bristle of hair and fur and fluff	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with bristle=Theme
2	look	past	mouths = mouth			like dogs; in some parts and cats in others	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in part=Theme
3	look	past	mouths = mouth		again	like chickens; in other parts	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in part=Theme

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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