The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 50

She forgot all her sorrows in a moment, hugging her child, and laughing and crying over him.

Who acts: eagle · What happens: forget, hug, laugh, cry, sorrow · To what, where: sorrows, child

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 sorrows	advmod
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sorrows	nmod:poss
5	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forgot	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 moment	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 moment	det
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgot	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hugging	punct
10	hugging	hug	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 forgot	parataxis
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 child	nmod:poss
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hugging	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laughing	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 laughing	cc
15	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 hugging	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 crying	cc
17	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 laughing	conj
18	over	over	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 crying	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	eagle	eagle's sorrows	moment		tree rules
2	hug	gerund		eagle's child			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Co-Agent
3	laugh	gerund					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	gerund				over sun	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Location
5	sorrow		eagle				nom sorrow «feeling 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 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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