The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 131
Full of joy and gratitude, Helena hurried to her stepmother, hoping that now at last her heart would be softened towards her.
Who acts: Full joy · What happens: hurry, hope, soften · To what, where: last, heart
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Full joy), 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 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 joy | amod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 joy | case |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hurried | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gratitude | cc |
| 5 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joy | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 joy | punct |
| 7 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hurried | nsubj |
| 8 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 stepmother | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hurried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hoping | punct |
| 13 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hurried | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 last | mark |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 last | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 last | case |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hoping | obl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 softened | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 softened | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 softened | aux:pass |
| 22 | softened | soften | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 last | acl:relcl |
| 23 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 softened | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | Full joy and gratitude | to HELENA's stepmother result | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to stepmother=Result | ||||
| 2 | hope | gerund | Full joy and gratitude not said here | last | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | soften | would · passive | HELENA's heart | towards HELENA | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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