Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 50

‘I will allow you to watch by it once more, but if this happens for the third time then the well is polluted and you can no longer remain with me.’

Who acts: I, this, you · What happens: allow, watch, happen, pollute, remain · To what, where: you, well

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, this, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 allow	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 allow	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 allow	aux
4	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 allow	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 watch	mark
7	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allow	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 watch	obl
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 watch	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 polluted	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 polluted	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 happens	mark
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 happens	nsubj
16	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 polluted	advcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 time	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 time	det
19	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 happens	obl
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 polluted	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 well	det
23	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 polluted	nsubj:pass
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 polluted	aux:pass
25	polluted	pollute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 allow	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 remain	cc
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 remain	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 remain	aux
29	no	no	ADV	_	30 longer	advmod
30	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 remain	advmod
31	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 polluted	conj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 remain	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 allow	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 allow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	allow	future	I		you			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer you=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	watch not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				by well	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by it=Location
3	happen a condition, not said to happen	present	this			time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pollute	present · passive		the well		then		tree rules
5	remain	can	you				with me; long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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