Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 66

For the next seven years you must not wash yourself, nor comb your hair or beard, neither must you cut your nails nor say one paternoster.

Who acts: you · What happens: not wash, comb, cut, say · To what, where: yourself, hair, nails, one paternoster · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	For	for	ADP	_	5 years	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 years	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wash	obl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 wash	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 wash	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 wash	advmod
9	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 wash	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 comb	punct
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	13 comb	cc
13	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wash	conj
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hair	nmod:poss
15	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 comb	obj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 beard	cc
17	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hair	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cut	punct
19	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	22 cut	cc:preconj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 cut	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 cut	nsubj
22	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wash	advcl
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 nails	nmod:poss
24	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cut	obj
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	26 say	cc
26	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 cut	conj
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 paternoster	nummod
28	paternoster	paternoster	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 say	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 wash	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not wash	must	you	yourself	year	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient
2	comb	infinitive	you not said here	your hair or beard		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	cut	must	you	your nails		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Product
4	say speech: assert	present	you not said here	one paternoster		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent paternoster=Topic

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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