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title: ‘I will allow you to watch by it once more, but if this happens for… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘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. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 50

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‘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.’

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

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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 (I, this, you), 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:pg2591:59:50
# text = ‘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.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
16	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	polluted	pollute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	no	no	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
31	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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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