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title: Just let twelve spinning-wheels be brought into the ante-chamber, an… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Just let twelve spinning-wheels be brought into the ante-chamber, and they will go to them and be pleased with them, and that is what no man would do.’ Who acts: you, twelve, wheels, that. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 32

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Just let twelve spinning-wheels be brought into the ante-chamber, and they will go to them and be pleased with them, and that is what no man would do.’

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**Who acts:** you, twelve, wheels, that, man · **What happens:** let, spin, bring, go, be, do · **To what, where:** twelve, wheels, ante chamber, peas

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, twelve, wheels, that), 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:pg2591:50:32
# text = Just let twelve spinning-wheels be brought into the ante-chamber, and they will go to them and be pleased with them, and that is what no man would do.’
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
4	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	ante	ante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	parataxis	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | twelve |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spin** | gerund | twelve *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive · passive |  | wheels |  | the ante chamber |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into chamber=Destination |
| 4 | **go** | future | wheels *= wheel* |  | peas *= pea* |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive | wheels *= wheel* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with peas *= pea*; pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** | would | no man |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «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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