Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 58

Having done all this, she sat down quite contented, waiting for his arrival on the next day about two o'clock, that being the hour at which he was expected--for Fin knew as much by the sucking of his thumb.

Who acts: wife, Fin, rabbit · What happens: have, do, sit down, content, wait, be · To what, where: this, hour, o'clock

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Fin, rabbit), 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	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sat	advcl
2	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Having	xcomp
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 this	det:predet
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 done	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Having	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sat	nsubj
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 sat	advmod
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 contented	advmod
10	contented	content	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sat	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 waiting	punct
12	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sat	advcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 arrival	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arrival	nmod:poss
15	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 waiting	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 day	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 day	det
18	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 day	amod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 waiting	obl
20	about	about	ADV	_	22 o'clock	advmod
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 o'clock	nummod
22	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 day	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hour	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 hour	mark
25	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 hour	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hour	det
27	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 waiting	obl
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 expected	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 expected	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 expected	aux:pass
32	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 hour	acl:relcl
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 knew	punct
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 knew	mark
35	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 knew	nsubj
36	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 expected	conj
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 much	advmod
38	much	much	ADV	_	36 knew	advmod
39	by	by	SCONJ	_	41 sucking	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sucking	det
41	sucking	suck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 knew	advcl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 thumb	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 thumb	nmod:poss
44	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sucking	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	wife not said here				tree rules
2	do	participle	wife not said here	this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
3	sit down	past	wife			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	content	participle	wife not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	wait	gerund	wife not said here		day	for rabbit's arrival	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	gerund		the hour			tree rules
7	expect	past · passive		o'clock	at the hour		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	know	past	Fin				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	suck	gerund	Fin not said here			of o'clock's thumb	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent of thumb=Source
10	arrive		rabbit				nom arrival «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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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