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title: Full of joy and gratitude, Helena hurried to her stepmother, hoping… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 131

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Full of joy and gratitude, Helena hurried to her stepmother, hoping that now at last her heart would be softened towards her.

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**Who acts:** Full joy · **What happens:** hurry, hope, soften · **To what, where:** last, heart

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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.

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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:pg7277:28:131
# text = Full of joy and gratitude, Helena hurried to her stepmother, hoping that now at last her heart would be softened towards her.
1	Full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Helena	Helena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	softened	soften	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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 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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