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title: “Take me back to your hut and cook me; then cut me up, and sprinkle… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Take me back to your hut and cook me; then cut me up, and sprinkle me over with pepper and salt. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 76

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

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

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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.

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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:pg3282:37:76
# text = “Take me back to your hut and cook me; then cut me up, and sprinkle me over with pepper and salt.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	cook	cook	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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 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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