---
title: “Put the custard and the little pot of butter upon the stool, and co… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Put the custard and the little pot of butter upon the stool, and come and lie down with me.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Red Riding Hood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/9/31/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Little Red Riding Hood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/9/) / 31

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
“Put the custard and the little pot of butter upon the stool, and come and lie down with me.”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** put, come, lie down · **To what, where:** custard, stool

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg503:9:31
# text = “Put the custard and the little pot of butter upon the stool, and come and lie 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	custard	custard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/9/30/)
- next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/9/32/)
- ↑ back to [Little Red Riding Hood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/9/)