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title: "Put the cake, and the little pot of butter upon the bread-bin, and… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "Put the cake, and the little pot of butter upon the bread-bin, and come and lye down with me." Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1, sentence 30

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"Put the cake, and the little pot of butter upon the bread-bin, and come and lye down with me."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** put, come, lye down · **To what, where:** cake

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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.

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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:pg29021:7:30
# text = "Put the cake, and the little pot of butter upon the bread-bin, and come and lye down with me."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	lye	lye	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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