The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 73

But just throw out the twelve carcasses of the oxen, and they will be so much occupied with them that they will quite forget us.’

Who acts: you, carcasses · What happens: throw out, be, forget · To what, where: twelve carcasses, us

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, carcasses), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 throw	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 throw	advmod
3	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 throw	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 carcasses	det
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 carcasses	nummod
7	carcasses	carcass	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 throw	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 oxen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 oxen	det
10	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 carcasses	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 occupied	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 occupied	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 occupied	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 occupied	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 occupied	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 occupied	advmod
18	occupied	occupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 throw	parataxis
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 occupied	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 forget	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 forget	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 forget	aux
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 forget	advmod
25	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 occupied	advcl
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 forget	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 throw	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	throw out	imperative	you not said here	the twelve carcasses of the oxen		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carcass=Theme
2	is	future	carcasses = carcass		with oxen = ox; occupied property	tree rules
3	forget	future	carcasses = carcass	us		tree rules

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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