The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 197

But people say, “If you want to do any one good, don’t do him good only, do him evil also, and there will be peace between you.”

Who acts: people, you · What happens: say, want, do, not do, evil, be · To what, where: one, cannon, peace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 say	cc
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
6	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 want	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 do	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 want	xcomp
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 one	det
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 do	obj
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
15	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 do	aux
16	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 do	advmod
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	obj
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 do	obj
20	only	only	ADV	_	17 do	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 do	punct
22	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	obj
24	evil	evil	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 do	conj
25	also	also	ADV	_	24 evil	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 peace	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 be	cc
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 be	expl
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 be	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 peace	cop
31	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	conj
32	between	between	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 peace	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	do not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	any one		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality
4	not do in a quote	infinitive · do-support	people not said here	cannon		tree rules
5	do in a quote	infinitive		cannon		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
6	evil in a quote	infinitive				tree rules
7	is a in a quote	infinitive	people not said here	peace	between you	tree rules

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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