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title: And you must also ask for twelve barrels of rye, and twelve slaughte… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 62

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg540:38:62
# text = 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.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	barrels	barrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rye	rye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
14	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
26	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	compound	_	_
31	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	spikes	spike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
33	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
39	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	41	det:predet	_	_
40	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
41	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
42	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	nummod	_	_
53	tons	ton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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:** «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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