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title: But for twelve years you must not look upon his face, for if either… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 72

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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!

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

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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.

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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:pg7128:20:72
# text = 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!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
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	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc:preconj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	past	past	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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