The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 31

“Put the custard and the little pot of butter upon the stool, and come and lie down with me.”

Who acts: you · What happens: put, come, lie down · To what, where: custard, stool

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Red Riding Hood. 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 custard	det
4	custard	custard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Put	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pot	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pot	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pot	amod
8	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 custard	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 butter	case
10	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pot	nmod
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 stool	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stool	det
13	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Put	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 come	cc
16	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Put	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lie	cc
18	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 come	conj
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 lie	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 lie	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Put	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the custard and the little pot of butter	the stool		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent custard=Theme upon stool=Destination
2	come in a quote	infinitive	you not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lie down in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			with the Wolf = wolf; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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