The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 30
"Put the cake, and the little pot of butter upon the bread-bin, and come and lye down with me."
Who acts: you · What happens: put, come, lye down · To what, where: cake
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 Put | punct |
| 2 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cake | det |
| 4 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Put | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pot | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pot | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pot | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pot | amod |
| 9 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Put | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 butter | case |
| 11 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pot | nmod |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 bin | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bin | det |
| 14 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bin | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 bread | punct |
| 16 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pot | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 come | cc |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Put | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lye | cc |
| 21 | lye | lye | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 lye | compound:prt |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 lye | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the cake | the little pot of butter upon the bread bin obl | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cake=Goal | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lye down in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | with the Wolf = wolf | tree rules |
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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