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title: Their bodies were like sealskin jackets on a very stout person; thei… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Their bodies were like sealskin jackets on a very stout person; their heads were like sealskin muffs; their legs were like sealskin boas; and their hands and feet were like sealskin tobacco pouches. Who acts: bodies, heads, legs, hands. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 91

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Their bodies were like sealskin jackets on a very stout person; their heads were like sealskin muffs; their legs were like sealskin boas; and their hands and feet were like sealskin tobacco pouches.

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**Who acts:** bodies, heads, legs, hands · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bodies, heads, legs, hands), 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:pg23661:8:91
# text = Their bodies were like sealskin jackets on a very stout person; their heads were like sealskin muffs; their legs were like sealskin boas; and their hands and feet were like sealskin tobacco pouches.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	jackets	jacket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	muffs	muff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	boas	boa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	pouches	pouch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | dwarfs's bodies |  |  |  |  | like sealskin jackets and sealskin muffs and sealskin boas and tobacco pouches; on a stout person | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | dwarfs's heads |  |  |  |  | like sealskin muffs and sealskin boas | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | dwarfs's legs |  |  |  |  | like sealskin boas | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | dwarfs's hands and feet |  |  |  |  | like tobacco pouches | tree rules |

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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:** «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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