The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 8
Just kill the twelve little foals again, so that I can suck the mares this year also, and then come and look at me in the summer.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: kill, suck, come, look · To what, where: twelve little foals, mares
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, I), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 kill | advmod |
| 2 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 foals | det |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 foals | nummod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 foals | amod |
| 6 | foals | foal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kill | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 kill | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 suck | punct |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 suck | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 so | fixed |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 suck | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 suck | aux |
| 13 | suck | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 kill | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mares | det |
| 15 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 suck | obj |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 suck | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 suck | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 come | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 come | advmod |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 suck | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 look | cc |
| 24 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 come | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 look | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 summer | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 summer | det |
| 29 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 look | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kill | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | imperative | you not said here | the twelve little foals | again | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Theme | |||
| 2 | suck | can | I | the mares | year | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mare=Source | |||
| 3 | come | infinitive | I not said here | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | infinitive | I not said here | summer | at me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme |
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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