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title: “To-morrow I brew, to-day I bake, And then the child away I’ll take;… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “To-morrow I brew, to-day I bake, And then the child away I’ll take; For little deems my royal dame That Rumpelstiltzkin is my name!” Who acts: messenger, child, Rumpelstiltzkin. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, with its depe
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 225

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“To-morrow I brew, to-day I bake, And then the child away I’ll take; For little deems my royal dame That Rumpelstiltzkin is my name!”

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**Who acts:** messenger, child, Rumpelstiltzkin · **What happens:** brew, bake, take, deem, be · **To what, where:** royal dame, name

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger, child, Rumpelstiltzkin), 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:pg503:13:225
# text = “To-morrow I brew, to-day I bake, And then the child away I’ll take; For little deems my royal dame That Rumpelstiltzkin is my name!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	brew	brew	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bake	bake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	For	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	deems	deem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	dame	dame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	Rumpelstiltzkin	Rumpelstiltzkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brew** *in a quote* | present | the messenger *= messenger* |  |  |  |  | to morrow | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bake** *in a quote* | present | the messenger *= messenger* |  |  |  | day |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | future | the child |  |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **deem** *in a quote* | present | the messenger *= messenger* *not said here* | my royal dame |  |  |  | little *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent dame=Attribute |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that Rumpelstiltzkin | my name |  |  |  |  | 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 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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