Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 27

There were many holes in the floor and walls, and every night a great number of rats and mice came in.

Who acts: many holes, great number · What happens: be, come in

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many holes, great number), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 holes	amod
4	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 floor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holes	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 walls	cc
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 holes	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl:unmarked
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 number	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 number	amod
16	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 rats	case
18	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 number	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 mice	cc
20	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rats	conj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
22	in	in	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	many holes in the floor and walls			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come in	past	a great number of rats and mice				night		vn escape-51.1-1 «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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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