Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 65
The church was more crowded than ever before, and there were three times as many outside.
Who acts: church · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (church), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 church | det |
| 2 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crowded | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crowded | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 crowded | advmod |
| 5 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 before | mark |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 before | advmod |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 5 crowded | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 were | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 were | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 were | expl |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 many | cop |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 times | nummod |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 were | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 many | advmod |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 crowded | conj |
| 17 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 16 many | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crowded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the church | before, crowded property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the church not said here | many, outside 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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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