The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 71

‘This time I will forgive you, because you brought me the water when I was in the cask; but beware how you return here, or you will pay for it with your life.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: forgive, bring, be, beware, return, pay · To what, where: you, water, me, cask

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	_	6 forgive	punct
2	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forgive	obl:unmarked
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 forgive	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 forgive	aux
6	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 forgive	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 brought	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 brought	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 brought	nsubj
11	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forgive	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 brought	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 cask	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 cask	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 cask	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 cask	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cask	det
20	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 beware	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 beware	cc
23	beware	beware	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 forgive	parataxis
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 return	advmod
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 return	nsubj
26	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 beware	ccomp
27	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 return	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pay	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 pay	cc
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 pay	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 pay	aux
32	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 beware	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 pay	obl
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 life	case
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 life	nmod:poss
37	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pay	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 forgive	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 forgive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forgive	future	I	you			time		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	bring	past	you	the water	me				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination water=Theme
3	is	past	I			the cask			tree rules
4	beware	infinitive							tree rules
5	return	present	you			here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	pay	future	you					for cask; with your life	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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