More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 32
For out of every hole the rats came tumbling.
Who acts: rats · What happens: come, tumble
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rats), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 hole | case |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 hole | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hole | case |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 hole | det |
| 5 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rats | det |
| 7 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | tumbling | tumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 came | xcomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the rats | for every hole | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tumble | gerund | the rats not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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.
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