The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 58

The poor girl loved her husband very much, but just then the baby was more to her than all else in the world, and as long as she had him with her, she did not very much mind anything.

Who acts: poor girl, baby, girl · What happens: love, be, have, do · To what, where: husband, girl, baby, anything

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor girl, baby, girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 husband	nmod:poss
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loved	obj
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	4 loved	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 more	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 more	cc
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 then	advmod
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 more	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 baby	det
14	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 more	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 more	cop
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 loved	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 more	obl
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 more	obl
21	else	else	ADV	_	20 all	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 world	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 all	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 had	cc
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 long	advmod
28	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 had	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loved	parataxis
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 did	punct
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 did	nsubj
37	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 had	conj
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 much	advmod
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 much	advmod
40	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 anything	amod
41	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 anything	compound
42	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	37 did	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	the poor girl	girl's husband				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus
2	is	past	the baby		girl	then	than all; more property	tree rules
3	have	past	girl	baby			with queen; long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	do	past	girl	anything				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

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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