English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 59

They had not sat long, when a vast number of rats and mice rushed in, and devoured all the meat in an instant.

Who acts: numbers, vast number · What happens: not sit, rush in, devour · To what, where: meat, instant

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 (numbers, vast number), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sat	advmod
4	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sat	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rushed	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 rushed	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 number	det
9	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 number	amod
10	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rushed	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 rats	case
12	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 number	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mice	cc
14	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rats	conj
15	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sat	conj
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 rushed	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 devoured	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 devoured	cc
19	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 meat	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 meat	det
22	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 devoured	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 instant	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 instant	det
25	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 devoured	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not sit	past · perfect	numbers = number			long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rush in	participle	a vast number of rats and mice				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	devour	past	numbers = number not said here	all meat	a instant		vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

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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