English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 10

It would be no unpatriotic task to help to bridge over this gulf, by giving a common fund of nursery literature to all classes of the English people, and, in any case, it can do no harm to add to the innocent gaiety of the nation.

Who acts: reason · What happens: be, help, give, do, add, fund · To what, where: unpatriotic task, bridge, gulf, common fund, classes, harm

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reason), 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	6 task	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 task	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 task	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 task	det
5	unpatriotic	unpatriotic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 task	amod
6	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 help	mark
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 task	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 bridge	mark
10	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 help	obj
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 gulf	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 gulf	det
13	gulf	gulf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 help	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 giving	punct
15	by	by	SCONJ	_	16 giving	mark
16	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 help	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fund	det
18	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fund	amod
19	fund	fund	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 giving	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 literature	case
21	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 literature	compound
22	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fund	nmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 classes	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 classes	det
25	classes	class	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 giving	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 people	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 people	det
28	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 people	amod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 classes	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 do	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 do	cc
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 and	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 case	case
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 case	det
35	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 do	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 case	punct
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 do	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 do	aux
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 task	parataxis
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 harm	det
41	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 do	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 add	mark
43	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 do	advcl
44	to	to	ADP	_	47 gaiety	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 gaiety	det
46	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 gaiety	amod
47	gaiety	gaiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 add	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 nation	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 nation	det
50	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 gaiety	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 task	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	would	reason	no unpatriotic task				tree rules
2	help	to-infinitive		bridge		this gulf		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Beneficiary
3	give	gerund		a common fund of nursery literature	all classes of the English people			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fund=Theme to class=Recipient
4	do	can	reason	no harm		any case		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality
5	add speech: assert	to-infinitive	reason not said here				to the innocent gaiety of the nation	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to gaiety=Co-Patient
6	fund			nursery literature				nom fund «possession transitive»: of=patient

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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