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description: 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. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 52

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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.

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**Who acts:** Rosamond · **What happens:** not help, stop, pick up, be, not open, see · **To what, where:** bag · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:7:53
# text = 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.
1	Rosamond	Rosamond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	expl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	csubj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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