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title: The second night twelve others will come: and the third night twenty… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The second night twelve others will come: and the third night twenty-four, who will even cut off your head; but at the twelfth hour of that night their power is gone, and I shall be free, and will come and bring you the Water of Life, and will wash you with it, and bring you back to life and health.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 43

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The second night twelve others will come: and the third night twenty-four, who will even cut off your head; but at the twelfth hour of that night their power is gone, and I shall be free, and will come and bring you the Water of Life, and will wash you with it, and bring you back to life and health.’

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**Who acts:** second night, power, I · **What happens:** come, cut off, be, bring, wash, bring back · **To what, where:** head, Water, you, life

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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 (second night, power, I), 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:pg2591:51:43
# text = The second night twelve others will come: and the third night twenty-four, who will even cut off your head; but at the twelfth hour of that night their power is gone, and I shall be free, and will come and bring you the Water of Life, and will wash you with it, and bring you back to life and health.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	cop	_	_
42	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	42	parataxis	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
49	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	wash	wash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	46	parataxis	_	_
58	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	_
59	with	with	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
63	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	57	conj	_	_
64	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	63	obj	_	_
65	back	back	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
66	to	to	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
69	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | future | the second night and twelve others |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cut off** | future |  | your head |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | chambers's power |  |  |  | hour | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | free *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **bring** | infinitive |  | the Water of Life | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination water=Theme |
| 7 | **wash** | future |  | you |  |  |  | with power | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with it=Instrument |
| 8 | **bring back** | infinitive |  | you |  | life and health |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to life=Destination |

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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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