The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 40

‘Do not pluck them,’ warned the Welwa, trotting beside him, ‘for my brother is seven times stronger than I’; but though Petru knew by experience what this meant, it was no use, and after a moment’s hesitation he began to gather the flowers, and to twist himself a wreath.

Who acts: brother, Petru, this, Welwa, moment · What happens: not pluck, warn, trot, be, know, mean · To what, where: flowers, Welwa, use, hesitation, Petru · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (brother, Petru, this, Welwa), 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 pluck	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 pluck	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 pluck	advmod
4	pluck	pluck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 warned	parataxis
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pluck	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pluck	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 pluck	punct
8	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Welwa	det
10	Welwa	Welwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 warned	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trotting	punct
12	trotting	trot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 warned	ccomp
13	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 trotting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stronger	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 stronger	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	23 stronger	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 brother	nmod:poss
19	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stronger	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 stronger	cop
21	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 times	nummod
22	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stronger	obl:unmarked
23	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 trotting	parataxis
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	26 ’	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 ’	nsubj
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 stronger	punct
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 use	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 use	cc
29	though	though	SCONJ	_	31 knew	mark
30	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 knew	nsubj
31	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 use	advcl
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 experience	case
33	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 knew	obl
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 knew	obj
35	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 meant	nsubj
36	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 what	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 knew	punct
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 use	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 use	cop
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 use	det
41	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warned	ccomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 hesitation	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 hesitation	cc
44	after	after	ADP	_	48 hesitation	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 moment	det
46	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hesitation	nmod:poss
47	’s	's	PART	_	46 moment	case
48	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 use	appos
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 began	nsubj
50	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 hesitation	acl:relcl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 gather	mark
52	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 began	xcomp
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 flowers	det
54	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 gather	obj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 twist	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 twist	cc
57	to	to	PART	_	58 twist	mark
58	twist	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 warned	conj
59	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	58 twist	obj
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 wreath	det
61	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 twist	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 warned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not pluck	infinitive · do-support		flowers = flower				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	warn speech: warn	past			the Welwa			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent welwa=Recipient clause=Topic
3	trot	gerund					beside man	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside he=Trajectory
4	is	present	my brother			time	strong property	tree rules
5	know	past	Petru	no use			by experience	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
6	mean	past	this					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	Welwa	no use				tree rules
8	begin	past	Petru	a moment's hesitation not said here				tree rules
9	gather	to-infinitive	Petru not said here	the flowers				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
10	twist	to-infinitive		Petru				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent himself=Theme wreath=Result
11	hesitate		a moment					nom hesitation «cognition intransitive»: 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 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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