--- title: For six long years you must neither speak nor laugh, and during that… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: For six long years you must neither speak nor laugh, and during that time you must sew together for us six little shirts of star-flowers, and should there fall a single word from your lips, then all your labor will be in vain." Who acts: you, labor. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, labor), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:19:38 # text = For six long years you must neither speak nor laugh, and during that time you must sew together for us six little shirts of star-flowers, and should there fall a single word from your lips, then all your labor will be in vain." 1 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 neither neither ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 10 cc _ _ 10 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 during during ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 15 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 sew sew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 19 together together ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 22 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 shirts shirt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 33 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 41 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 48 advmod _ _ 42 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 44 det:predet _ _ 43 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 labor labor NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 45 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 46 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 48 cop _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | must | you | | | | year | neither *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **laugh** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sew** | must | you | six little shirts of star flowers | | | time | for us; together *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent shirt=Material for we=Beneficiary | | 4 | **fall** | should | you *not said here* | a single word | | your lips; there | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient word=Extent from lip=Initial\_State | | 5 | **is** | future | your labor | | | | then | vain *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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/19/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/19/39/) - ↑ back to [The Six Swans](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/19/)