The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 123

‘Do not pick the flowers; it will bring you bad luck; answered the horse.

Who acts: you, heart · What happens: not pick, bring, answer · To what, where: flowers, bad luck, you, horse

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, heart), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 pick	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 pick	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 pick	advmod
4	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flowers	det
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pick	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 bring	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bring	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bring	aux
10	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pick	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 bring	obj
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 luck	amod
13	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bring	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pick	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horse	det
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answered	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not pick	imperative · do-support	you not said here	the flowers		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
2	bring	future	heart	bad luck	you	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination luck=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past			the horse	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality

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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