English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 83

His goggle eyes were like flames of fire, his countenance grim and ugly, and his cheeks like a couple of large flitches of bacon, while the bristles of his beard resembled rods of iron wire, and the locks that hung down upon his brawny shoulders were like curled snakes or hissing adders.

Who acts: goggle eyes, bristles, locks · What happens: be, resemble, hang down, curl, hiss · To what, where: rods, adders

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goggle eyes, bristles, locks), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
2	goggle	goggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eyes	compound
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flames	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flames	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 flames	case
6	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fire	case
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flames	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 countenance	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 countenance	nmod:poss
11	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fire	appos
12	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 countenance	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ugly	cc
14	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grim	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cheeks	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cheeks	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 cheeks	nmod:poss
18	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flames	conj
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 couple	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 couple	det
21	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cheeks	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 flitches	case
23	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 flitches	amod
24	flitches	flitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 couple	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 bacon	case
26	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flitches	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 resembled	punct
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 resembled	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bristles	det
30	bristles	bristle	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 resembled	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 beard	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 beard	nmod:poss
33	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bristles	nmod
34	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flames	parataxis
35	rods	rod	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 resembled	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 wire	case
37	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wire	compound
38	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rods	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 hung	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 hung	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 locks	det
42	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 hung	nsubj
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 hung	nsubj
44	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 resembled	conj
45	down	down	ADV	_	44 hung	advmod
46	upon	upon	ADP	_	49 shoulders	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 shoulders	nmod:poss
48	brawny	brawny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 shoulders	amod
49	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 snakes	obl
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 snakes	cop
51	like	like	ADP	_	53 snakes	case
52	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 snakes	amod
53	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 hung	obj
54	or	or	CCONJ	_	55 hissing	cc
55	hissing	hiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 snakes	conj
56	adders	adder	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 hissing	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flames	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Jack's goggle eyes		like flames and Jack's cheeks like a couple of large flitches of bacon; of fire	tree rules
2	resemble	past	the bristles of Jack's beard	rods of iron wire		tree rules
3	hang down	past	the locks		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	curl	participle				vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
5	is	past			like curled snakes; upon Jack's brawny shoulders	tree rules
6	hiss	gerund		adders		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adder=Topic

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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