Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 12

They had moustaches poking under their noses and woolly wads growing out of their ears, so that when you looked at them the first time you never wanted to look at them again, and if you had to look at them a second time you were likely to die of the sight.

Who acts: mouths, moustaches, woolly wads, you, first time · What happens: have, poke, grow out, look, not want, be · To what, where: moustaches, noses, ears, first time, second time

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, moustaches, woolly wads, you), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	moustaches	moustache	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	poking	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 moustaches	acl
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 noses	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 noses	nmod:poss
7	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 poking	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wads	cc
9	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wads	amod
10	wads	wad	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 noses	conj
11	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 wads	acl
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 ears	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 ears	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ears	nmod:poss
15	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 growing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looked	punct
17	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 looked	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 so	fixed
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 looked	advmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 looked	nsubj
21	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 looked	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 time	det
25	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 time	amod
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looked	obl:unmarked
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 wanted	nsubj
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 wanted	advmod
29	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 time	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 look	mark
31	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wanted	xcomp
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 look	obl
34	again	again	ADV	_	31 look	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 had	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 had	cc
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 had	mark
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 look	mark
41	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 had	xcomp
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 look	obl
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 time	det
45	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	46 time	amod
46	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 look	obl:unmarked
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 likely	nsubj
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 likely	cop
49	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 time	acl:relcl
50	to	to	PART	_	51 die	mark
51	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 likely	xcomp
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 sight	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 sight	det
54	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 die	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	mouths = mouth	moustaches				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moustache=Patient
2	poke	gerund	moustaches not said here		mouths's noses and woolly wads			vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent under nose=Location
3	grow out	gerund	woolly wads not said here	mouths's ears				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ear=Theme
4	look	past	you			time	at mouths = mouth	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
5	not want	past	you	the first time not said here				tree rules
6	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	the first time not said here			again	at mouths = mouth	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
7	have a condition, not said to happen	past	you					tree rules
8	look	to-infinitive	you not said here			time	at mouths = mouth	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
9	is	past	you	a second time not said here			likely property	tree rules
10	die	to-infinitive	you not said here				of the sight	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of sight=Causer

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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