English Fairy Tales, The Cat and the Mouse, sentence 12

“Pray, Butcher, give me meat, that I may give farmer meat, that farmer may give me hay, that I may give cow hay, that cow may give me milk, that I may give cat milk, that cat may give me my own tail again.”

Who acts: Pray, farmer, cow, cow hay · What happens: give · To what, where: meat, farmer, farmer meat, hay, milk, cat milk

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cat and the Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pray, farmer, cow, cow hay), 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	_	6 give	punct
2	Pray	Pray	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Butcher	punct
4	Butcher	Butcher	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Pray	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 give	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 give	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 give	aux
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 give	conj
14	farmer	farmer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 meat	amod
15	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 farmer	det
18	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 give	aux
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 give	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 give	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 give	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 give	nsubj
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 give	aux
27	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 give	conj
28	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hay	compound
29	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 give	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 cow	det
32	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 give	nsubj
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 give	aux
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 hay	parataxis
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 give	iobj
36	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 give	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 give	punct
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 give	mark
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 give	nsubj
40	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 give	aux
41	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 give	conj
42	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 milk	compound
43	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 give	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 cat	punct
45	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 cat	det
46	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 milk	conj
47	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 give	aux
48	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 give	conj
49	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 give	iobj
50	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 tail	nmod:poss
51	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 tail	amod
52	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 give	obj
53	again	again	ADV	_	48 give	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
55	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	give in a quote	infinitive	Pray and Butcher	meat	the farmer = farmer		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient meat=Theme
2	give in a quote	may	the farmer = farmer	farmer meat			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme
3	give in a quote	may	that farmer	hay	the farmer = farmer		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hay=Theme
4	give in a quote	may	the farmer = farmer				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	give in a quote	may	that cow	milk	the farmer = farmer		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient milk=Theme
6	give in a quote	may	the farmer = farmer	cat milk and that cat			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
7	give in a quote	may	cow hay	my own tail	the farmer = farmer	again	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient tail=Theme

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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