The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 76

“Take me back to your hut and cook me; then cut me up, and sprinkle me over with pepper and salt.

Who acts: you · What happens: take, cook, cut up, sprinkle over · To what, where: fish

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. 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 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Take	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 Take	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 hut	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hut	nmod:poss
7	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 back	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cook	cc
9	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 cook	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 cut	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 cut	advmod
13	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	parataxis
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 cut	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 cut	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sprinkle	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sprinkle	cc
18	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 cut	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 sprinkle	obj
20	over	over	ADP	_	18 sprinkle	compound:prt
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 pepper	case
22	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sprinkle	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 salt	cc
24	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pepper	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	imperative	you not said here		the fish = fish			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
2	cook in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the fish = fish				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	cut up in a quote	infinitive		the fish = fish		then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product
4	sprinkle over in a quote	infinitive			the fish = fish		with pepper and salt	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with pepper=Theme

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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