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title: His bed stood in a garret, where there were so many holes in the flo… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 30

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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.

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**Who acts:** bed, many holes · **What happens:** stand, be, torment · **To what, where:** garret, night

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:37:30
# text = 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.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	garret	garret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	tormented	torment	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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