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title: Just a heap of wrinkles, and two bright black eyne in the midst, set… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Just a heap of wrinkles, and two bright black eyne in the midst, set in a lot of shining yaller hair; and the skin was the colour of the fresh turned earth in the spring--brown as brown could be, and its bare hands and feet were brown like the face of it. Who acts: two, lot, skin, fresh. A sentence 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 57

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Just a heap of wrinkles, and two bright black eyne in the midst, set in a lot of shining yaller hair; and the skin was the colour of the fresh turned earth in the spring--brown as brown could be, and its bare hands and feet were brown like the face of it.

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**Who acts:** two, lot, skin, fresh · **What happens:** eyne, set, shine, be, turn, brown · **To what, where:** midst, lot, yaller hair, colour, earth, heap

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, lot, skin, fresh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:17:57
# text = Just a heap of wrinkles, and two bright black eyne in the midst, set in a lot of shining yaller hair; and the skin was the colour of the fresh turned earth in the spring--brown as brown could be, and its bare hands and feet were brown like the face of it.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	wrinkles	wrinkle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
9	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	eyne	eyne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
22	yaller	yaller	X	FW	_	23	compound	_	_
23	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
31	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	nsubj	_	_
34	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
35	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	obl	_	_
43	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
47	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	conj	_	_
52	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	brown	brown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
54	like	like	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	53	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eyne** |  | two |  |  | the midst |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | participle |  | the midst *not said here* |  | a lot |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in lot=Destination |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund | a lot *not said here* | yaller hair |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the skin | the colour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **turn** | past | the fresh | earth |  |  | spring |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=Theme |
| 6 | **be** |  | the skin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as brown | tree rules |
| 7 | **brown** | could · passive |  | a heap of wrinkles and bright black eyne and the colour |  |  |  | like the face of face | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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