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Universal Dependencies - English - LinES
| Language | English |
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| Project | LinES |
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| Corpus Part | train |
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| Annotation | Ahrenberg, Lars |
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Yes, look at her, bunioned, bulbous, hair in bulrush rolls, butt-headed, butter-hearted and tenacious as a buckaroo.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2739
Yes, look at her, bunioned, bulbous, hair in bulrush rolls, butt-headed, butter-hearted and tenacious as a buckaroo.
I had seen it happen to others.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2740
I had seen it happen to others.
I did not want it to happen to me.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2741
I did not want it to happen to me.
Fate. A spin on the Wheel of Fortune and out I tumbled at Jove's feet.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2742
Fate. A spin on the Wheel of Fortune and out I tumbled at Jove's feet.
Another dizzy round, and there is Stella waiting to help me off.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2743
Another dizzy round, and there is Stella waiting to help me off.
But who is turning the wheel?
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But who is turning the wheel?
Honest Guv' I had both hands tied behind my back.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2745
Honest Guv' I had both hands tied behind my back.
Neither my mother nor my father were able to cope with the 1960s.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2746
Neither my mother nor my father were able to cope with the 1960s.
Skirts were too short, hair was too long, and the favoured colour combination of purple and orange made my mother look like a vampire and my father a Matisse.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2747
Skirts were too short, hair was too long, and the favoured colour combination of purple and orange made my mother look like a vampire and my father a Matisse.
They were peculiarly ill-placed for the general assault on the past that the Sixties represented because they lived in Liverpool.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2748
They were peculiarly ill-placed for the general assault on the past that the Sixties represented because they lived in Liverpool.
Liverpool, that should have slumbered its way through the Sixties as it had every other decade, produced the Beatles.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2749
Liverpool, that should have slumbered its way through the Sixties as it had every other decade, produced the Beatles.
My parents were victims of the Merseybeat.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2750
My parents were victims of the Merseybeat.
I was born in a tug-boat.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2751
I was born in a tug-boat.
My mother whelped me in a mess of blankets while my noctivagant father towed in the big ships.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2752
My mother whelped me in a mess of blankets while my noctivagant father towed in the big ships.
Perhaps it was the seriousness of our business that pushed us both into laughter, extremes of emotion so easily tumbling into their opposites.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2753
Perhaps it was the seriousness of our business that pushed us both into laughter, extremes of emotion so easily tumbling into their opposites.
Yet there was relief for us to find a human face behind the monster mask; the monster wife, the monster mistress, and what about the monster man?
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2754
Yet there was relief for us to find a human face behind the monster mask; the monster wife, the monster mistress, and what about the monster man?
Tell the story as it happened.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2755
Tell the story as it happened.
Why then did I trouble the surface?
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2756
Why then did I trouble the surface?
It was not myself I fell in love with it was her.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2757
It was not myself I fell in love with it was her.
'Are you waiting for someone?' I said.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2758
'Are you waiting for someone?' I said.
'I was.'
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2759
'I was.'
'We're going to live in London,' he said.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2760
'We're going to live in London,' he said.
'Why Daddy?'
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2761
'Why Daddy?'
'Because Daddy has a new job.'
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2762
'Because Daddy has a new job.'
Grandmother was here, wrapped from head to foot in woollens, her face entirely obscured by a seaman's balaclava.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2763
Grandmother was here, wrapped from head to foot in woollens, her face entirely obscured by a seaman's balaclava.
She made us a cup of cocoa and my mother swept off in a taxi.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2764
She made us a cup of cocoa and my mother swept off in a taxi.
I woke up in the dazed apartment.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2765
I woke up in the dazed apartment.
Next to me on the massacred bed, the order and beauty of her body.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2766
Next to me on the massacred bed, the order and beauty of her body.
On the table beside, an amputated lamp.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2767
On the table beside, an amputated lamp.
Across the room was a Snow Queen's mirror, its pieces scatters of despair.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2768
Across the room was a Snow Queen's mirror, its pieces scatters of despair.
I crept from beneath the scissored blankets to the bathroom.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2769
I crept from beneath the scissored blankets to the bathroom.
The white and chrome was a shrine to Chanel.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2770
The white and chrome was a shrine to Chanel.
A place for everything, everything in its place. Peace.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2771
A place for everything, everything in its place. Peace.
One day when my mother was taking me to school, the streets seemed very quiet.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2772
One day when my mother was taking me to school, the streets seemed very quiet.
We parked, although we were the only car on the stretch of road, and we got out to walk slowly, hand in hand, through some flimsy barriers of paper and string.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2773
We parked, although we were the only car on the stretch of road, and we got out to walk slowly, hand in hand, through some flimsy barriers of paper and string.
Far away we saw some policemen waving at us and we waved back.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2774
Far away we saw some policemen waving at us and we waved back.
We heard a lorry coming up behind and my mother told me it had a television crew on board which excited me who had never seen a television.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2775
We heard a lorry coming up behind and my mother told me it had a television crew on board which excited me who had never seen a television.
Anything that had been on the market for as little as ten years was unlikely to impress my father.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2776
Anything that had been on the market for as little as ten years was unlikely to impress my father.
'Are you happy, Alice?'
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2777
'Are you happy, Alice?'
'Yes, Daddy.'
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2778
'Yes, Daddy.'
It should have been fun but neither of them was happy.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2779
It should have been fun but neither of them was happy.
When I was five my father was on pills and my mother was on gin.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2780
When I was five my father was on pills and my mother was on gin.
I think I was happy, in the maddening determined way that children have of being happy, and it was that happiness that worked as a magnet on both of my parents.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2781
I think I was happy, in the maddening determined way that children have of being happy, and it was that happiness that worked as a magnet on both of my parents.
They were pulled by it, they wanted it, and instead of taking it for granted, they started to take it to bits.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2782
They were pulled by it, they wanted it, and instead of taking it for granted, they started to take it to bits.
At last we arrived at a small diner in a beaten-up part of town.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2783
At last we arrived at a small diner in a beaten-up part of town.
She swung inside and we sat at a menacingly nice checked-cloth table with red carnations and a few rods of grissini.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2784
She swung inside and we sat at a menacingly nice checked-cloth table with red carnations and a few rods of grissini.
A boy came out with a carafe of red wine and a bowl of olives.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2785
A boy came out with a carafe of red wine and a bowl of olives.
He handed us the menus as if this was just an ordinary dinner in an ordinary day.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2786
He handed us the menus as if this was just an ordinary dinner in an ordinary day.
I had fallen into the hands of the Borgias and now they wanted me to eat.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2787
I had fallen into the hands of the Borgias and now they wanted me to eat.
When he stopped holding me up to the light he began to hold me up to the mirror.
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When he stopped holding me up to the light he began to hold me up to the mirror.
He wanted to compare us, side by side, did I look like him?
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2789
He wanted to compare us, side by side, did I look like him?
He had enough money.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2790
He had enough money.
It was his wife they were draining away.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2791
It was his wife they were draining away.
His friends interpreted the resentment as a normal response to a difficult situation.
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His friends interpreted the resentment as a normal response to a difficult situation.
My mother took the simple view that a man must have his work.
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My mother took the simple view that a man must have his work.
My father though, was not simple and he was still aware enough to turn the mask over and over in his hands and ask what it was.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2794
My father though, was not simple and he was still aware enough to turn the mask over and over in his hands and ask what it was.
Uncharacteristically, he went to visit my grandmother.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2795
Uncharacteristically, he went to visit my grandmother.
Months later, proud complacent Zeus had a headache and yowled his way over the earth, threatening to split the firmament with pain.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2796
Months later, proud complacent Zeus had a headache and yowled his way over the earth, threatening to split the firmament with pain.
It was Hermes who told him the source of his trouble, and Hephaestus, the lame god of the smithy who took a hammer and wedge and split open Lord Zeus's skull.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2797
It was Hermes who told him the source of his trouble, and Hephaestus, the lame god of the smithy who took a hammer and wedge and split open Lord Zeus's skull.
Out came Athene tall strong beautiful and her father's own.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2798
Out came Athene tall strong beautiful and her father's own.
'You must be bored there,' said my mother.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2799
'You must be bored there,' said my mother.
But that was in the future, and in 1959 my father was in the fullness of his present, he could do no wrong.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2800
But that was in the future, and in 1959 my father was in the fullness of his present, he could do no wrong.
As the lorry came close to us, four young men dressed entirely in black ran past.
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en_lines-ud-train-doc8-2801
As the lorry came close to us, four young men dressed entirely in black ran past.
Three of them carried guitars, one had a set of drumsticks.
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Three of them carried guitars, one had a set of drumsticks.
I had seen people dressed in black before.
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I had seen people dressed in black before.
'Won't hurt,' said Grandmother.
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'Won't hurt,' said Grandmother.
'Look at me.'
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'Look at me.'
Husband and wife. Man and rib. What could be more normal than that?
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Husband and wife. Man and rib. What could be more normal than that?
And now they were having a baby.
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And now they were having a baby.
That is, my mother was bearing my father's child.
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That is, my mother was bearing my father's child.
It was different when my sisters were born but I was Athene.
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It was different when my sisters were born but I was Athene.
Athene born fully formed from the head of Zeus.
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Athene born fully formed from the head of Zeus.
My father no longer wanted herring heads.
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My father no longer wanted herring heads.
He wanted mink and pearls and he got them.
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He wanted mink and pearls and he got them.
Like most men he was a transvestite at one remove; if his wife was part of him so were her clothes.
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Like most men he was a transvestite at one remove; if his wife was part of him so were her clothes.
She was his rib and as such he too wore a silk shift.
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She was his rib and as such he too wore a silk shift.
He loved her clothes, loved to see her dressed up, it satisfied a part of him that was deeper than vanity.
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He loved her clothes, loved to see her dressed up, it satisfied a part of him that was deeper than vanity.
It was a part of himself.
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It was a part of himself.
She completed him.
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She completed him.
She manifested him at another level.
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She manifested him at another level.
He absorbed her while she failed to absorb him.
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He absorbed her while she failed to absorb him.
This was so normal that nobody noticed it.
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This was so normal that nobody noticed it.
At least not until later, much later, when things began to change.
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At least not until later, much later, when things began to change.
Page of cups
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Page of cups
Her kitchen had strings of onions and fat hams hanging in glorious torture from twisted hooks in the ceiling.
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Her kitchen had strings of onions and fat hams hanging in glorious torture from twisted hooks in the ceiling.
She smoked her own kippers up the chimney, skewering them in pairs with discarded knitting needles.
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She smoked her own kippers up the chimney, skewering them in pairs with discarded knitting needles.
For this she kept a wood fire.
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For this she kept a wood fire.
The other fireplaces were fed on coal.
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The other fireplaces were fed on coal.
She had a glass-fronted cabinet lined with jars of homemade preserve; pickles, tomatoes, pears, cabbage, and in the middle, a baby rabbit.
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She had a glass-fronted cabinet lined with jars of homemade preserve; pickles, tomatoes, pears, cabbage, and in the middle, a baby rabbit.
This was not for eating.
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This was not for eating.
It was an ornament.
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It was an ornament.
When the wind blew and the cupboard rattled the rabbit bobbed up and down in his transparent prison, his ears buckling slightly as they hit the lid seal.
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When the wind blew and the cupboard rattled the rabbit bobbed up and down in his transparent prison, his ears buckling slightly as they hit the lid seal.
Like my grandmother he kept secrets the way other people keep fish.
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Like my grandmother he kept secrets the way other people keep fish.
They were a hobby, a fascination, his underwater collection of the rare and the strange.
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They were a hobby, a fascination, his underwater collection of the rare and the strange.
Occasionally something would float up to the surface, unexpected, unexplained.
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Occasionally something would float up to the surface, unexpected, unexplained.
'Tha wife's to give birth.'
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'Tha wife's to give birth.'
She was not resourceful; her class did not allow it, and I know it worried my grandmother that her son had found a wife who did not know how to make a soup out of herring's heads.
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She was not resourceful; her class did not allow it, and I know it worried my grandmother that her son had found a wife who did not know how to make a soup out of herring's heads.
'I christen this child ...'
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'I christen this child ...'
He didn't come home that night, nor the night after.
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He didn't come home that night, nor the night after.
The telephone rang each evening at six o'clock until a week had passed.
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The telephone rang each evening at six o'clock until a week had passed.
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