The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 52
Rosamond could not help stopping to pick it up, and it was impossible for her not to open the bag to see what was inside.
Who acts: Rosamond · What happens: not help, stop, pick up, be, not open, see · To what, where: bag · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosamond), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rosamond | Rosamond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 help | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 help | advmod |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | stopping | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 help | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pick | mark |
| 7 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stopping | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pick | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 pick | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 impossible | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 impossible | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 impossible | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 impossible | cop |
| 14 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 help | conj |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 open | mark |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 open | nsubj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 open | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 open | mark |
| 19 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 impossible | csubj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bag | det |
| 21 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 open | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 see | mark |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 open | advcl |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 inside | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 inside | cop |
| 26 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 23 see | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | could | Rosamond | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stop not said to happen | gerund | Rosamond not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | pick up | to-infinitive | Rosamond not said here | bag | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Rosamond not said here | impossible property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not open | to-infinitive | ROSAMOND | the bag | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | ROSAMOND not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is | past | what nsubj; inside 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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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