The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 46

Each one had two heads, eight feet, and four rows of teeth, and their skins were as hard as turtle shells, and were bright red.

Who acts: one, skins · What happens: have, be · To what, where: two heads

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, skins), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 heads	nummod
5	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 feet	punct
7	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 feet	nummod
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heads	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rows	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rows	cc
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 rows	nummod
12	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 teeth	case
14	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rows	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hard	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hard	cc
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 skins	nmod:poss
18	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hard	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hard	cop
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 hard	advmod
21	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	conj
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 shells	case
23	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shells	compound
24	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hard	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 red	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 red	cc
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 red	cop
28	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 red	amod
29	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	each one	two heads and eight feet	four rows of teeth obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	is	past	teeth's skins		as turtle shells; hard property	tree rules
3	is	past			red property	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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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