The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 131

Look at the flowers as much as you like, but pick none,’ and the horse walked on slowly.

Who acts: you, horse · What happens: look, like, pick, walk on · To what, where: none

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, horse), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 flowers	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flowers	det
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Look	obl
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Look	conj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 like	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 like	nsubj
9	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 much	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pick	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 pick	cc
12	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	parataxis
13	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	12 pick	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pick	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 walked	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 horse	det
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 walked	nsubj
19	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
20	on	on	ADV	_	19 walked	advmod
21	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	19 walked	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here		at the flowers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme
2	like	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	pick	present		none		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient
4	walk on	past	the horse		slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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