Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 59

You had better say nothing about this to our father, for he does not believe a word you say; and if you tell tales, you shall lose your life into the bargain: but be quiet, and we will let you off.’

Who acts: You, father, we · What happens: have, say, not believe, tell, lose, be · To what, where: nothing, father, word, tales, life, bargain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, father, we), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 had	xcomp
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 say	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 nothing	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 father	case
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nothing	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 believe	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 believe	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 believe	nsubj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 believe	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 believe	advmod
16	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 word	det
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 believe	obj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 say	nsubj
20	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 word	acl:relcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 lose	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 lose	cc
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 tell	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 tell	nsubj
25	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 lose	advcl
26	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 tell	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 lose	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 lose	aux
30	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	parataxis
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 life	nmod:poss
32	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lose	obj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 bargain	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bargain	det
35	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lose	obl
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 quiet	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 quiet	cc
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 quiet	cop
39	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	parataxis
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 let	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 let	cc
42	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 let	nsubj
43	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 let	aux
44	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 quiet	conj
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 let	obj
46	off	off	ADP	_	44 let	compound:prt
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 quiet	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	You				good property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	You not said here	nothing	our father		about this	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to father=Recipient
3	not believe	present · do-support	father	a word				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	present	you	a word not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
5	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	you	tales				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
6	lose	shall	you	your life		the bargain		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality
7	is	infinitive					quiet property	tree rules
8	let off	future	we	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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