The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 120

But just as the girl was rejoicing that her work was completed, in came the husband once more to see what his wife was doing; and this time he sat himself down in the hut, and said that he wished to watch whatever was going on.

Who acts: girl, husband, wife, whatever · What happens: rejoice, complete, come, see, do, sit down · To what, where: work, husband, hut · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, husband, wife, whatever), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 rejoicing	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	7 rejoicing	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 rejoicing	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rejoicing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rejoicing	aux
7	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 completed	mark
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 work	nmod:poss
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 completed	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 completed	aux:pass
12	completed	complete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 rejoicing	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 came	case
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 completed	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 husband	det
17	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 came	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 see	mark
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 came	advcl
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 doing	obj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 doing	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 doing	aux
26	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 see	ccomp
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 sat	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sat	cc
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sat	obl:unmarked
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sat	nsubj
32	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 completed	parataxis
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 sat	obj
34	down	down	ADP	_	32 sat	compound:prt
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 hut	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hut	det
37	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sat	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 said	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 said	cc
40	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sat	conj
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 wished	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 wished	nsubj
43	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 said	ccomp
44	to	to	PART	_	45 watch	mark
45	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 wished	xcomp
46	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 going	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 going	aux
48	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 watch	ccomp
49	on	on	ADP	_	48 going	compound:prt
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rejoicing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	rejoice	past · progressive	the girl				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	complete	past · passive		girl's work			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	come	past	the husband				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	the husband not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	past · progressive	husband's wife				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	sit down	past	husband	husband	the hut	time	tree rules
7	say speech: assert	past	husband not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	wish	past	husband				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	watch not said to happen	to-infinitive	husband not said here				tree rules
10	go on	past · progressive	whatever				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	work		girl				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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 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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