Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 42

They will ask what you do here, but give no answer; and let them do what they will--beat, whip, pinch, prick, or torment you--bear all; only speak not a word, and at twelve o’clock they must go away.

Who acts: chambers, you · What happens: ask, do, give, let, torment, bear · To what, where: answer, chambers, word, twelve o’clock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chambers, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ask	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	aux
3	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 ask	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 do	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 give	cc
10	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 do	conj
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 answer	det
12	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 let	cc
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ask	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 do	obj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 will	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 what	acl:relcl
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 beat	punct
22	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 let	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 whip	punct
24	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beat	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pinch	punct
26	pinch	pinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beat	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 prick	punct
28	prick	prick	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beat	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 torment	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 torment	cc
31	torment	torment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ask	parataxis
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 torment	nsubj
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 bear	punct
34	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ask	conj
35	all	all	ADV	_	34 bear	advmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 speak	punct
37	only	only	ADV	_	38 speak	advmod
38	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	parataxis
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 speak	advmod
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 word	det
41	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 speak	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 go	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 go	cc
44	at	at	ADP	_	46 o’clock	case
45	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 o’clock	nummod
46	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 go	obl
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 go	nsubj
48	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 go	aux
49	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 speak	conj
50	away	away	ADV	_	49 go	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	future	chambers = chamber				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
2	do	present	you		here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	present	you not said here	no answer			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
4	let	infinitive	chambers = chamber not said here	chambers = chamber			tree rules
5	do	infinitive	chambers = chamber not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	torment		you				tree rules
7	bear	infinitive	chambers = chamber not said here			all property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
8	not speak speech: other	infinitive		a word			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	go away	must	chambers = chamber		twelve o’clock	away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at o'clock=Location

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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