The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 91

One night in the spring, when the ice had melted, and the snow was gone, the sisters sat spinning in the house, awaiting their husbands' return.

Who acts: snow, sisters, husbands · What happens: melt, be, sit, spin, await, return · To what, where: One night, house, return

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow, sisters, husbands), 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 night	nummod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 melted	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 spring	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spring	det
5	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 night	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 melted	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 melted	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ice	det
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 melted	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 melted	aux
11	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gone	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gone	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 snow	det
15	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gone	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	cop
17	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 melted	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sat	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sisters	det
20	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sat	nsubj
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	conj
22	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 sat	xcomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 house	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 house	det
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spinning	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 awaiting	punct
27	awaiting	await	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 spinning	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 husbands	nmod:poss
29	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 return	nmod:poss
30	'	's	PART	_	29 husbands	case
31	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 awaiting	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 melted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	melt	past · perfect · passive		One night in the spring			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	is	past	the snow			gone property	tree rules
3	sit	past	the sisters				tree rules
4	spin	gerund	the sisters not said here		the house		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in house=Trajectory
5	await	gerund	the sisters not said here	sisters's husbands's return			tree rules
6	return		sisters's husbands				nom return «communication 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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