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title: His goggle eyes were like flames of fire, his countenance grim and u… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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: g
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 83

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg7439:23:83
# text = 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.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	goggle	goggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	flitches	flitch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	bacon	bacon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bristles	bristle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	resembled	resemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
35	rods	rod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
45	down	down	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	brawny	brawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	_
50	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
51	like	like	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	amod	_	_
53	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
54	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	hissing	hiss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	conj	_	_
56	adders	adder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	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 | 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 |

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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:** «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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