Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 34

But a quiet little girl had remained behind, for it seemed to her the flower did not say, "Do not pluck me," but, "Pluck me."

Who acts: it, flower · What happens: remain, seem, not say, not pluck, pluck · To what, where: quiet little girl, girl, flower · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, flower), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 remained	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 girl	det
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remained	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 remained	aux
7	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	behind	behind	ADV	_	7 remained	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 seemed	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 remained	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seemed	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 flower	det
16	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 say	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 say	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 say	advmod
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 seemed	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pluck	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 pluck	punct
22	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 pluck	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 pluck	advmod
24	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 say	ccomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 pluck	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pluck	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 pluck	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 Pluck	cc
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 but	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 Pluck	punct
31	Pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 say	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 Pluck	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 remained	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	remain	past · perfect · passive		a quiet little girl		behind property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
2	seem	past	it		girl		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	the flower				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not pluck in a quote	infinitive · do-support		the flower = flower			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	pluck in a quote	infinitive	the flower not said here	the flower = flower			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 34