English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 30
His bed stood in a garret, where there were so many holes in the floor and the walls that every night he was tormented with rats and mice.
Who acts: bed, many holes · What happens: stand, be, torment · To what, where: garret, night
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed, many holes), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 bed | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 garret | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 garret | det |
| 6 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 were | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 were | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 were | expl |
| 10 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 many | advmod |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 holes | amod |
| 13 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 were | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 floor | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 floor | det |
| 16 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 holes | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 walls | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 walls | det |
| 19 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 holes | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 tormented | obj |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tormented | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 tormented | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 tormented | aux:pass |
| 25 | tormented | torment | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 holes | acl:relcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 rats | case |
| 27 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 tormented | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 mice | cc |
| 29 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 rats | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Dick's bed | a garret | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garret=Location | ||||
| 2 | be | past | many holes in the floor and the walls | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | torment | past · passive | every night | with rats and mice | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer that=Result |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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