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title: So, about the time that she expected her husband home from work, she… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 64

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:29:64
# text = 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.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	nmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	busily	busily	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
30	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	42	mark	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
43	in	in	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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.

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**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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