More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 10

One winter's evening the sexton's wife was sitting by the fireside with her big black cat, Old Tom, on the other side, both half asleep and waiting for the master to come home.

Who acts: evening · What happens: sit, wait, come · To what, where: other side

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 winter	nummod
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 evening	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 winter	case
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sitting	nsubj:outer
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sexton	det
6	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 sexton	case
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sitting	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sitting	aux
10	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 fireside	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fireside	det
13	fireside	fireside	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sitting	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	18 cat	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 cat	nmod:poss
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cat	amod
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cat	amod
18	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fireside	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Tom	punct
20	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Tom	amod
21	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 cat	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 side	punct
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 side	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 side	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 side	amod
26	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sitting	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 asleep	punct
28	both	both	CCONJ	_	30 asleep	cc:preconj
29	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	30 asleep	advmod
30	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sitting	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 waiting	cc
32	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 asleep	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 master	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 master	det
35	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 waiting	obl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 come	mark
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 waiting	advcl
38	home	home	ADV	_	37 come	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	One winter's evening	the other side	by the fireside with wife's big black cat	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fireside=Location
2	wait	gerund	One winter's evening not said here		for the master	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	to-infinitive	One winter's evening not said here		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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