Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 4

If you do not promise to instruct him in everything he ought to know, and to be his guardian, I cannot close my eyes in peace."

Who acts: you, John, I · What happens: not promise, instruct, know, be, not close · To what, where: John, everything, eyes

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, John, I), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 promise	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 promise	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 promise	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 promise	advmod
5	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 close	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 instruct	mark
7	instruct	instruct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 promise	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 instruct	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 everything	case
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 instruct	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
12	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
13	to	to	PART	_	14 know	mark
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 everything	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 guardian	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 guardian	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	20 guardian	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 guardian	cop
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 guardian	nmod:poss
20	guardian	guardian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 promise	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 promise	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 close	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 close	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 close	advmod
25	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 eyes	nmod:poss
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 close	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 peace	case
29	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 close	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 close	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 close	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	instruct speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		John	everything		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	know	ought	John					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	to-infinitive	you not said here				guardian property	tree rules
5	not close	can	I	my eyes			in peace	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Patient in peace=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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