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title: “Take that for meddling with what don't concern you: you shall see m… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Take that for meddling with what don't concern you: you shall see me no more.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 35

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“Take that for meddling with what don't concern you: you shall see me no more.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, meddle, do, see · **To what, where:** that, concern, you, Dame

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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.

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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:pg7439:46:35
# text = “Take that for meddling with what don't concern you: you shall see me no more.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	meddling	meddle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	concern	concern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	no	no	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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