The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 6

‘Be quick, and fling over me the ox-hides that have the spikes in them, throw the twelve tons of tar over the field, and climb up into that great spruce fir tree.

Who acts: you, ox hides · What happens: be, have, throw, climb up · To what, where: spikes, twelve tons, field, great fir tree

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ox hides), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 quick	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 quick	cop
3	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fling	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fling	cc
6	fling	fling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quick	conj
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 fling	nmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hides	det
10	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hides	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 ox	punct
12	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fling	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hides	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 spikes	det
16	spikes	spike	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 throw	punct
20	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 have	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tons	det
22	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 tons	nummod
23	tons	ton	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 throw	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 tar	case
25	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tons	nmod
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 field	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 field	det
28	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 throw	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 climb	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 climb	cc
31	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 quick	parataxis
32	up	up	ADV	_	31 climb	advmod
33	into	into	ADP	_	38 tree	case
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 tree	nsubj
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tree	amod
36	spruce	spruce	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fir	compound
37	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 tree	compound
38	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 climb	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 quick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here			quick property	tree rules
2	have	present	the ox hides	the spikes		in spikes = spike	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spike=Patient
3	throw	infinitive		the twelve tons of tar	the field		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ton=Theme over field=Destination
4	climb up	present			great fir tree		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination

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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