English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 51
So there was a whole lot of sillies bigger than them three sillies at home.
What happens: be · To what, where: home
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bigger | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lot | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lot | amod |
| 6 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bigger | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sillies | case |
| 8 | sillies | silly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lot | nmod |
| 9 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bigger | obl |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 sillies | nummod |
| 13 | sillies | silly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bigger | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bigger | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bigger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | home | than people; a whole lot of sillies obl:unmarked; three sillies obl; big property | tree rules |
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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