Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 10

‘Oh!’ said the man, ‘you need not fear the gallows; for I will only teach you to steal what will be fair game: I meddle with nothing but what no one else can get or care anything about, and where no one can find you out.’

Who acts: you, I, one · What happens: say, not fear, teach, steal, be, meddle · To what, where: man, gallows, you, fair game, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, one), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
9	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	13 fear	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 fear	nsubj
11	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fear	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 fear	advmod
13	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gallows	det
15	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fear	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 teach	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 teach	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 teach	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 teach	aux
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 teach	advmod
21	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fear	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 teach	iobj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 steal	mark
24	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 teach	xcomp
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 steal	obj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 game	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 game	cop
28	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 game	amod
29	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 what	nsubj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 meddle	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 meddle	nsubj
32	meddle	meddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 nothing	case
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 meddle	obl
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 get	cc
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 get	obj
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 one	det
38	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 get	nsubj
39	else	else	ADV	_	38 one	advmod
40	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 get	aux
41	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 meddle	conj
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 care	cc
43	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 get	conj
44	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	43 care	obj
45	about	about	ADV	_	43 care	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 find	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 find	cc
48	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	52 find	advmod
49	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	50 one	det
50	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 find	nsubj
51	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 find	aux
52	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 meddle	conj
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 find	obj
54	out	out	ADP	_	52 find	compound:prt
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
2	not fear	present	you	the gallows			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gallows=Stimulus
3	teach speech: other	future	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	steal	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme
5	is a	future		fair game			tree rules
6	meddle	present	I			with nothing	tree rules
7	get	can	no one				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
8	care	infinitive	no one not said here	anything		about property	tree rules
9	find out	can	no one	you			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic

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: «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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