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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 37

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He made a bed of moss for the boy on which he slept, and the next morning the man took him to a well, and said: ‘Behold, the gold well is as bright and clear as crystal, you shall sit beside it, and take care that nothing falls into it, or it will be polluted.

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**Who acts:** king, man, you, that · **What happens:** make, sleep, take, say, be, sit · **To what, where:** bed, king, well, gold, care · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (king, man, you, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2591:59:37
# text = He made a bed of moss for the boy on which he slept, and the next morning the man took him to a well, and said: ‘Behold, the gold well is as bright and clear as crystal, you shall sit beside it, and take care that nothing falls into it, or it will be polluted.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	38	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	ccomp	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	parataxis	_	_
47	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	conj	_	_
52	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
53	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj	_	_
54	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	55	nsubj	_	_
55	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	parataxis	_	_
56	into	into	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
59	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
60	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj:pass	_	_
61	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
62	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	aux:pass	_	_
63	polluted	pollute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | king | a bed of moss |  |  |  | for the boy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bed=Material for boy=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **sleep** | past | king |  |  |  |  | on the boy | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | past | the man | king |  | a well | morning |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to well=Destination |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as crystal; bright *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **sit** | shall | you |  |  | gold |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside it=Location |
| 8 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 9 | **fall** | present | that |  |  | gold |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into it=Result |
| 10 | **pollute** | future · passive |  | gold |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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