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title: It will be observed that the helpful animal is helpful in two ways (… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., with its depend
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# More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 52

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:66:52
# text = 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.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	heroine	heroine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
23	tasks	task	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	b	b	NUM	LS	_	29	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	providing	provide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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