More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 52

It will be observed that the helpful animal is helpful in two ways (a) in helping the heroine to perform tasks; (b) in providing her with magic dresses.

Who acts: helpful animal, heroine · What happens: observe, be, help, perform, provide · To what, where: Cinderella, two ways, heroine, tasks

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (helpful animal, heroine), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 observed	nsubj:pass
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 observed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 observed	aux:pass
4	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 helpful	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animal	det
7	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animal	amod
8	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 helpful	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 helpful	cop
10	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 observed	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 ways	case
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 ways	nummod
13	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 helpful	obl
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 a	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ways	appos
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 a	punct
17	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 helping	mark
18	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 helpful	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 heroine	det
20	heroine	heroine	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 helping	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 perform	mark
22	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 helping	xcomp
23	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 perform	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 providing	punct
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 b	punct
26	b	b	NUM	_	29 providing	discourse
27	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 b	punct
28	in	in	SCONJ	_	29 providing	mark
29	providing	provide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 observed	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 providing	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 dresses	case
32	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dresses	amod
33	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 providing	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 observed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	observe	future · passive		Cinderella				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	is	present	the helpful animal			two ways	helpful property	tree rules
3	help	gerund	the helpful animal not said here	the heroine				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent heroine=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	perform	to-infinitive	the heroine not said here	tasks				vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme
5	provide	gerund			Heroine		with magic dresses	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with dress=Theme

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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