The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 16
She will not be able to help doing so, and then you will be quite satisfied with the result.’
Who acts: Queen, you · What happens: not be, help, do, be
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, 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 (Queen, you), 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 | 5 able | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 able | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 able | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | cop |
| 5 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 help | mark |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | xcomp |
| 8 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 help | xcomp |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 doing | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 satisfied | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 satisfied | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 satisfied | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 satisfied | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 satisfied | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 satisfied | cop |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 satisfied | advmod |
| 17 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 able | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 result | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 result | det |
| 20 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 satisfied | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 able | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | future | Queen | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | gerund | Queen not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | future | you | then | with the result; satisfied property | tree rules |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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