--- title: Helena did all she could to gain her love, and performed the heavy w… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:28:112 # text = 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. 1 Helena Helena PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 obj _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 nmod _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 gain gain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 performed perform VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 20 cheerfully cheerfully ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’s 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 30 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 31 in in SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 least least NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 42 nsubj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 42 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 46 advmod _ _ 45 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ _ 47 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 iobj _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Helena | all | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | | 2 | **gain** | to-infinitive | Helena *not said here* | HELENA's love | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme | | 3 | **perform** | past | Helena *not said here* | the heavy work | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | | 4 | **give** | participle | the heavy work *not said here* | HELENA | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | the heavy work *not said here* | | | | | cheerfully *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **is** | past | HELENA's stepmother's heart | | | | | touch *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **do** | past | the more | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | HELENA | | stepmother | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 9 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | HELENA *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **love** | | HELENA | | | | | | nom 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. - ← previous: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/28/111/) - next →: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/28/113/) - ↑ back to [The Biter Bit, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/28/)