The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 172
There were mice everywhere, and nothing but mice.
Who acts: mice · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mice), 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 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 4 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 were | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 nothing | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 nothing | cc |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 were | parataxis |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 mice | cc |
| 9 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 nothing | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | mice | there | everywhere property | 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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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