Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 20

It flows from a fountain in the court of an enchanted castle, into which you can never penetrate if I do not give you an iron rod and two loaves of bread.

Who acts: water, you, I · What happens: flow, enchant, not penetrate, not give · To what, where: fountain, iron rod, you

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, you, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flows	nsubj
2	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 fountain	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fountain	det
5	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flows	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 court	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 court	det
8	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fountain	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 castle	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 castle	det
11	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 castle	amod
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 court	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 penetrate	punct
14	into	into	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 penetrate	obl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 penetrate	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 penetrate	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 penetrate	advmod
19	penetrate	penetrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 flows	conj
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 give	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 give	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 give	advmod
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 penetrate	advcl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 rod	det
27	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 rod	amod
28	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 loaves	cc
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 loaves	nummod
31	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rod	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 bread	case
33	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 loaves	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	flow	present	water			a fountain in the court of a enchanted castle	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	enchant	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	not penetrate	can	you				vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not give a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	I	a iron rod and two loaves of bread	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient rod=Theme

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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