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title: ‘Be quick, and fling over me the ox-hides that have the spikes in th… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 6

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‘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.

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

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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.

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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:pg540:39:6
# text = ‘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.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fling	fling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	spikes	spike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	tons	ton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	climb	climb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	up	up	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	nsubj	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
36	spruce	spruce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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