The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 134

Let no one tempt you to try to cool yourself, or evil will befall you.’

Who acts: you, one, evil · What happens: let, tempt, try, cool, befall · To what, where: one, you, yourself

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one, evil), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
4	tempt	tempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tempt	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 try	mark
7	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tempt	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cool	mark
9	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 try	xcomp
10	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 cool	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 befall	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 befall	cc
13	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 befall	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 befall	aux
15	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 try	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 befall	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	no one	tree rules
2	tempt	infinitive	no one not said here	you	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	try	to-infinitive	no one not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cool not said to happen	to-infinitive	no one not said here	yourself	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient
5	befall	future	evil	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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