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title: ‘Do your worst, and welcome,’ said the brute, ‘what harm can you do… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Do your worst, and welcome,’ said the brute, ‘what harm can you do me?’ and passed on. Who acts: you, welcome, harm. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 26

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‘Do your worst, and welcome,’ said the brute, ‘what harm can you do me?’ and passed on.

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**Who acts:** you, welcome, harm · **What happens:** do, say, pass on · **To what, where:** worst, brute, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, welcome, harm), 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:pg2591:9:26
# text = ‘Do your worst, and welcome,’ said the brute, ‘what harm can you do me?’ and passed on.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	brute	brute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	16	det	_	_
16	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* | your worst |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bad=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | welcome | the brute |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | can | what harm |  | me |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pass on** | participle | welcome *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: 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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