The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 49

I have lost the best of mothers, and I don’t know what will become of me,’ and he hid his face in his hands and sobbed again.

Who acts: I, skin · What happens: lose, not know, become, hide, sob · To what, where: best, face, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, skin), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 best	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 lost	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 mothers	case
7	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 best	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 know	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lost	parataxis
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 become	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 become	aux
16	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 know	ccomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 become	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hid	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hid	nsubj
23	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 face	nmod:poss
25	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hid	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 hands	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hands	nmod:poss
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hid	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sobbed	cc
30	sobbed	sob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 hid	conj
31	again	again	ADV	_	30 sobbed	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · perfect	I	the best of mothers				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
2	not know	present · do-support	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	become	future					of me	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	hide	past	skin	skin's face	skin's hands			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent face=Patient in hand=Location
5	sob	participle	skin not said here			again		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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