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title: Just kill the twelve little foals again, so that I can suck the mare… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 8

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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.’

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** kill, suck, come, look · **To what, where:** twelve little foals, mares

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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, I), 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:pg540:38:8
# text = 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.’
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	foals	foal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	13	mark	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	suck	suck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mares	mare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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