More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 37
As for getting near him there were too many rats.
What happens: get, be · To what, where: many rats
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: 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 getting | mark |
| 2 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 getting | mark |
| 3 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 getting | obl |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 were | expl |
| 7 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 getting | conj |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 many | advmod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rats | amod |
| 10 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 getting | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | many rats | near Nor | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rat=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be | past | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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