Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 72

But for twelve years you must not look upon his face, for if either you or his father see it before the twelve years are past, you will surely die!

Who acts: you · What happens: not look, see, be, die · To what, where: face

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 look	cc
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 years	case
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 look	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 look	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 look	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 look	advmod
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 face	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 look	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 see	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 see	mark
15	either	either	CCONJ	_	16 you	cc:preconj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 father	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 you	conj
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 look	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	obj
22	before	before	ADP	_	25 years	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 years	det
24	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 years	nummod
25	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 past	obl
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 past	cop
27	past	past	ADV	_	20 see	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 die	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 die	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 die	aux
31	surely	surely	ADV	_	32 die	advmod
32	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 look	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not look	must	you		year	upon child's face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon face=Theme
2	see a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	you	face			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	is	present			year	past property	tree rules
4	die	future	you			surely property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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