Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 8

‘Then,’ said the man, ‘go with me, and I will teach you to become the cunningest thief that ever was.’

Who acts: I · What happens: say, go, teach, become · To what, where: man, you, cunningest thief · 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 (I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Then	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	_	10 go	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 teach	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 teach	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 teach	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 teach	aux
17	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	advcl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 teach	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 become	mark
20	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 teach	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 thief	det
22	cunningest	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 thief	amod
23	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 become	xcomp
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 was	nsubj
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 was	advmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thief	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the man		then		tree rules
2	go	infinitive					with me	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary
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	become	to-infinitive	I not said here	the cunningest thief				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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