The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 64

So, about the time that she expected her husband home from work, she got out her spinning-wheel, and sat busily turning it, taking care not even to look up from her work when the man came in.

Who acts: subject, man · What happens: expect, get out, sit, turn, take, look up · To what, where: husband, work, spinning wheel, wheel, care

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (subject, man), 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 expected	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expected	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 time	nmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 expected	nsubj
8	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expected	obj
11	home	home	ADV	_	8 expected	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 work	case
13	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expected	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 got	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 got	nsubj
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 expected	conj
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 got	advmod
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wheel	nmod:poss
19	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wheel	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 spinning	punct
21	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sat	cc
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 expected	conj
25	busily	busily	ADV	_	24 sat	advmod
26	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sat	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 turning	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 taking	punct
29	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 turning	conj
30	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 taking	obj
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 even	advmod
32	even	even	ADV	_	29 taking	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 look	mark
34	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 taking	advcl
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 look	compound:prt
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 work	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 work	nmod:poss
38	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 look	obl
39	when	when	SCONJ	_	42 came	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 man	det
41	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 came	nsubj
42	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 look	advcl
43	in	in	ADV	_	42 came	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 expected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	past	subject	subject's husband	work	time	home property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme
2	get out	past	subject	subject's spinning wheel			out property	tree rules
3	sit	past	subject not said here				busily property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn	gerund	subject not said here	wheel				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	take	gerund	subject not said here	care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
6	look up	to-infinitive	subject not said here				from subject's work	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from work=Theme
7	come in	past	the man					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	work		subject					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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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