The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], sentence 14

"Bring me that pot"; another "Give me that kettle"; and a third, "Put some wood upon the fire."

Who acts: you, another, third · What happens: bring, give, put · To what, where: pot, noise, kettle, wood, fire

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, another, third), 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	_	2 Bring	punct
2	Bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Bring	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 pot	det
5	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bring	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 Give	punct
8	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	10 Give	nsubj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Give	punct
10	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Bring	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 Give	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 kettle	mark
13	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Give	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 kettle	punct
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 Put	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Put	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 third	det
18	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Put	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Put	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Put	punct
21	Put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Bring	conj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 wood	det
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Put	obj
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 fire	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fire	det
26	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Put	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	bring in a quote	imperative	you not said here	that pot	noise		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination pot=Theme
2	give in a quote	infinitive	another	kettle	noise		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient kettle=Theme
3	put in a quote	infinitive	a third	some wood		the fire	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme upon fire=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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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