--- title: Her skin hung loose about her, all her flesh was gone, and she stare… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Her skin hung loose about her, all her flesh was gone, and she stared out of her great eyes as though she'd seen a ghost; and what was more, the fireplace in the kitchen was one great pile of wood-ash. Who acts: skin, flesh, wind, one great pile. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skin, flesh, wind, one great pile), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:22:117 # text = Her skin hung loose about her, all her flesh was gone, and she stared out of her great eyes as though she'd seen a ghost; and what was more, the fireplace in the kitchen was one great pile of wood-ash. 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 loose loose ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 10 det:predet _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 stared stare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 out out ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 22 as as ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 23 though though SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 'd have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 ghost ghost NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 33 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 fireplace fireplace NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 41 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 42 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ash ash NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang** | past | wind's skin | | | | | about wind; loose *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about she=Location | | 2 | **is** | past | wind's flesh | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **stare out** | past | wind | wind's great eyes | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | past · perfect | wind | a ghost | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ghost=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | past | one great pile | | | | | more *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | past | the fireplace in the kitchen | one great pile | | | | of wood ash | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/116/) - next →: [sentence 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/118/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/)