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title: Their bodies were covered with a bristle of hair and fur and fluff,… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Their bodies were covered with a bristle of hair and fur and fluff, so that they looked like dogs in some parts and like cats in others, and in other parts again they looked like chickens. Who acts: mouths. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 11

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Their bodies were covered with a bristle of hair and fur and fluff, so that they looked like dogs in some parts and like cats in others, and in other parts again they looked like chickens.

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**Who acts:** mouths · **What happens:** cover, look · **To what, where:** bodies

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouths), 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:pg2892:57:11
# text = Their bodies were covered with a bristle of hair and fur and fluff, so that they looked like dogs in some parts and like cats in others, and in other parts again they looked like chickens.
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	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bristle	bristle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fluff	fluff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	18	mark	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
34	again	again	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
37	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past · passive |  | mouths's bodies |  |  |  | with a bristle of hair and fur and fluff | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with bristle=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | mouths *= mouth* |  |  |  |  | like dogs; in some parts and cats in others | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in part=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | past | mouths *= mouth* |  |  |  | again | like chickens; in other parts | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in part=Theme |

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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:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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