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title: "Bring me that pot"; another "Give me that kettle"; and a third, "Pu… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "Bring me that pot"; another "Give me that kettle"; and a third, "Put some wood upon the fire." Who acts: you, another, third. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"\], sentence 14

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

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

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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.

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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:pg29021:13:14
# text = "Bring me that pot"; another "Give me that kettle"; and a third, "Put some wood upon the fire."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	det	_	_
5	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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 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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