The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 62

And you must also ask for twelve barrels of rye, and twelve slaughtered oxen must we have with us, and all the twelve ox-hides with twelve hundred spikes set in each of them; all these things must we have, likewise a barrel of tar with twelve tons of tar in it.

Who acts: you, twelve, oxen, things · What happens: ask, slaughter, have, set · To what, where: twelve ox hides, hundred spikes, each, barrel, tar

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. 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, oxen, things), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 ask	cc
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 ask	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	aux
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 ask	advmod
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 barrels	case
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 barrels	nummod
8	barrels	barrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ask	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 rye	case
10	rye	rye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 barrels	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 slaughtered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 slaughtered	cc
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 slaughtered	nsubj
14	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	conj
15	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 slaughtered	ccomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 us	case
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hides	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hides	cc
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 hides	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hides	det
25	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 hides	nummod
26	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hides	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 ox	punct
28	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 slaughtered	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 spikes	case
30	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 hundred	compound
31	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 spikes	nummod
32	spikes	spike	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hides	nmod
33	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 spikes	acl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 each	case
35	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	33 set	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 each	nmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 have	punct
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 things	det:predet
40	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	41 things	det
41	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 have	nsubj
42	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 have	aux
43	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 have	nsubj
44	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ask	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 barrel	punct
46	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	48 barrel	advmod
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 barrel	det
48	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 have	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 tar	case
50	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 barrel	nmod
51	with	with	ADP	_	53 tons	case
52	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 tons	nummod
53	tons	ton	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 barrel	nmod
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 tar	case
55	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 tons	nmod
56	in	in	ADP	_	57 it	case
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 have	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	must	you			for twelve barrels of rye	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	slaughter	past	twelve	all twelve ox hides with hundred spikes			tree rules
3	have	must	oxen			with us	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	set	participle		hundred spikes not said here	each		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in each=Destination
5	have	must	all things	a barrel of tar	tar	with twelve tons of tar	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barrel=Patient

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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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