English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 35
“Take that for meddling with what don't concern you: you shall see me no more.”
Who acts: you · What happens: take, meddle, do, see · To what, where: that, concern, you, Dame
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. 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.
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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 meddling | mark |
| 5 | meddling | meddle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Take | advcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 meddling | obl |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 concern | advmod |
| 10 | concern | concern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 do | iobj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Take | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | no | no | ADV | _ | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 see | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | that | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meddle in a quote | gerund | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | concern | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | shall | you | Dame | tree rules |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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