Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 49

Beware, however, that you betray us not; the King will not believe you, and if you say a single word your life will be lost; but if you remain silent you are safe."

Who acts: you, King · What happens: beware, not betray, not believe, say, lose, remain · To what, where: us, you, single word, life · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, King), 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	Beware	beware	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	1 Beware	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 betray	punct
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 betray	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 betray	nsubj
7	betray	betray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Beware	parataxis
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 betray	obj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 betray	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 believe	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 believe	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 believe	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 believe	advmod
15	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 betray	parataxis
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 believe	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 say	cc
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 say	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 say	nsubj
21	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 believe	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 word	det
23	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 word	amod
24	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 say	obj
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 life	nmod:poss
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lost	nsubj:pass
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 lost	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 lost	aux:pass
29	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 say	ccomp
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 safe	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 safe	cc
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 remain	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 remain	nsubj
34	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 safe	advcl
35	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 remain	xcomp
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 safe	nsubj
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 safe	cop
38	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Beware	parataxis
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Beware	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Beware	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beware	imperative	you not said here		however property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not betray	present	you	us		tree rules
3	not believe	future	the King	you		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a single word		tree rules
5	lose	future · passive		your life		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	remain a condition, not said to happen	present	you		silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	present	you		safe property	tree rules

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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