The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 34

The work was very hard, but the sheep did not grumble, and by-and-by was rewarded at seeing the little green heads poking themselves through earth.

Who acts: work, sheep, little green heads · What happens: be, not grumble, reward, see, poke · To what, where: little green heads, sheep

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work, sheep, little green heads), 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 work	det
2	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grumble	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 grumble	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sheep	det
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grumble	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grumble	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 grumble	advmod
12	grumble	grumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hard	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rewarded	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rewarded	cc
15	by	by	ADP	_	21 rewarded	case
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 by	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 by	cc
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 by	punct
19	by	by	ADP	_	15 by	fixed
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 rewarded	aux:pass
21	rewarded	reward	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hard	conj
22	at	at	SCONJ	_	23 seeing	mark
23	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 rewarded	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 heads	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 heads	amod
26	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 heads	amod
27	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 seeing	obj
28	poking	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 heads	acl
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 poking	obj
30	through	through	ADP	_	31 earth	case
31	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 poking	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the work		hard property	tree rules
2	not grumble speech: other	past · do-support	the sheep			vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	reward	past · passive	the work not said here			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»
4	see	gerund	the work not said here	the little green heads		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus
5	poke	gerund	the little green heads not said here	sheep	through earth	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Instrument through earth=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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