The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 61

Whatever you do, don’t follow her if she calls you, but on the contrary say to her, “The buyer comes to the seller, not the seller to the buyer.”

Who acts: you, mermaid, buyer · What happens: do, not follow, call, come · To what, where: Whatever, mermaid, you, seller · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mermaid, buyer), 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	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 do	obj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 do	nsubj
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 follow	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 follow	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 follow	advmod
7	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 follow	obj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 calls	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 calls	nsubj
11	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 follow	advcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 calls	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 say	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 say	det
17	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 say	amod
18	say	say	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 follow	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 say	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 comes	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 comes	punct
23	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 buyer	det
24	buyer	buyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 comes	nsubj
25	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 say	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 seller	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 seller	det
28	seller	seller	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 comes	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seller	punct
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 seller	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 seller	det
32	seller	seller	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seller	appos
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 buyer	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 buyer	det
35	buyer	buyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seller	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	do	present	you	Whatever			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality
2	not follow	imperative · do-support	you not said here	mermaid			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	call a condition, not said to happen	present	mermaid		you		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	come in a quote	present	the buyer			the seller	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to seller=Initial_Location

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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