The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 5
As soon as the lights were out, these untiring nibblers set to work.
Who acts: untiring nibblers · What happens: be out, set, work
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (untiring nibblers), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 set | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 lights | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lights | det |
| 5 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 soon | obl |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lights | advcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 were | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 nibblers | det |
| 10 | untiring | untiring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nibblers | amod |
| 11 | nibblers | nibbler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 set | nsubj |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 work | mark |
| 14 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 set | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be out | past | this untiring nibblers not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | set | present | this untiring nibblers | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | this untiring nibblers not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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