The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 40

'Milk me and drink as much as you will, little maiden,' cried the cow, 'but be sure you spill none on the ground; and do me no harm, for I have never harmed anyone.'

Who acts: you, I · What happens: milk, drink, cry, be, spill, do · To what, where: me, much, cow, none, ground, harm

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Milk	punct
2	Milk	milk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Milk	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 drink	cc
5	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Milk	conj
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drink	obj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 will	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 will	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 much	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 maiden	punct
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 maiden	amod
13	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Milk	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 maiden	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cow	det
18	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cried	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 sure	cc
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 sure	cop
23	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Milk	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 spill	nsubj
25	spill	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sure	ccomp
26	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	25 spill	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 ground	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ground	det
29	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spill	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 do	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 do	cc
32	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Milk	conj
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 do	iobj
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 harm	det
35	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 do	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 harmed	punct
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	41 harmed	mark
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 harmed	nsubj
39	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 harmed	aux
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 harmed	advmod
41	harmed	harm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 do	advcl
42	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	41 harmed	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Milk	punct
44	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Milk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	milk	imperative	you not said here	me				vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Source
2	drink	present	you not said here	much				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
3	cry speech: express	past		the cow				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Topic
4	is	infinitive	you not said here				sure property	tree rules
5	spill	present	you	none		the ground		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location none=Theme
6	do	infinitive	you not said here	no harm	me			tree rules
7	not harm	present · perfect	I	anyone				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anyone=Experiencer

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.

Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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