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The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 112

Helena did all she could to gain her love, and performed the heavy work given her to do cheerfully and well; but her stepmother’s heart wasn’t in the least touched, and the more the poor girl did the more she asked her to do.

Who acts: Helena, heavy work, heart, more · What happens: do, gain, perform, give, not be, ask · To what, where: all, love, heavy work, HELENA, stepmother

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 (Helena, heavy work, heart, more), 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

nsubjobjnsubjnmodmarkadvclnmod:possobjpunctccconjdetamodobjaclobjmarkadvcladvmodccconjpunctccnmod:possnmod:posscasensubjcopadvmodmarkdetnsubjparataxispunctccdetnsubjdetamodnsubjconjdetadvmodnsubjadvcliobjmarkxcomppunctrootHelenaPROPNdidVERBallDETshePRONcouldAUXtoPARTgainVERBherPRONloveNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJperformedVERBtheDETheavyADJworkNOUNgivenVERBherPRONtoPARTdoVERBcheerfullyADVandCCONJwellADV;PUNCTbutCCONJherPRONstepmotherNOUN’sPARTheartNOUNwasAUXn’tPARTinSCONJtheDETleastNOUNtouchedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETmoreADJtheDETpoorADJgirlNOUNdidVERBtheDETmoreADVshePRONaskedVERBherPRONtoPARTdoVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HelenaHelenaPROPNNumber=Sing2 didnsubj
2diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3allallDETPronType=Tot2 didobj
4sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 couldnsubj
5couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin3 allnmod
6totoPART_7 gainmark
7gaingainVERBVerbForm=Inf2 didadvcl
8herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 lovenmod:poss
9loveloveNOUNNumber=Sing7 gainobj
10,,PUNCT_12 performedpunct
11andandCCONJ_12 performedcc
12performedperformVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 didconj
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 workdet
14heavyheavyADJDegree=Pos15 workamod
15workworkNOUNNumber=Sing12 performedobj
16givengiveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass15 workacl
17hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 givenobj
18totoPART_19 domark
19dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf16 givenadvcl
20cheerfullycheerfullyADV_19 doadvmod
21andandCCONJ_22 wellcc
22wellwellADVDegree=Pos20 cheerfullyconj
23;;PUNCT_34 touchedpunct
24butbutCCONJ_34 touchedcc
25herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 stepmothernmod:poss
26stepmotherstepmotherNOUNNumber=Sing28 heartnmod:poss
27’s'sPART_26 stepmothercase
28heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing34 touchednsubj
29wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin34 touchedcop
30n’tnotPARTPolarity=Neg34 touchedadvmod
31ininSCONJ_34 touchedmark
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 leastdet
33leastleastNOUNNumber=Sing34 touchednsubj
34touchedtouchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 didparataxis
35,,PUNCT_42 didpunct
36andandCCONJ_42 didcc
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 moredet
38moremoreADJDegree=Cmp42 didnsubj
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 girldet
40poorpoorADJDegree=Pos41 girlamod
41girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing38 morensubj
42diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin34 touchedconj
43thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 moredet
44moremoreADVDegree=Cmp46 askedadvmod
45sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs46 askednsubj
46askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin42 didadvcl
47hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs46 askediobj
48totoPART_49 domark
49dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf46 askedxcomp
50..PUNCT_2 didpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dopastHelenaallvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
2gainto-infinitiveHelena not said hereHELENA's lovevn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme
3performpastHelena not said herethe heavy workvn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
4giveparticiplethe heavy work not said hereHELENAvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5doto-infinitivethe heavy work not said herecheerfully propertyvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6not ispastHELENA's stepmother's hearttouch propertytree rules
7dopastthe morevn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8ask speech: askpastHELENAstepmothervn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
9do not said to happento-infinitiveHELENA not said herevn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10loveHELENAnom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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