English Fairy Tales, The Cat and the Mouse, sentence 17

Then the baker gave mouse bread, and mouse gave butcher bread, and butcher gave mouse meat, and mouse gave farmer meat, and farmer gave mouse hay, and mouse gave cow hay, and cow gave mouse milk, and mouse gave cat milk, and cat gave mouse her own tail again!

Who acts: baker, mouse, butcher, farmer, cow, cat · What happens: give · To what, where: mouse bread, butcher bread, mouse meat, farmer meat, mouse hay, cow hay

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 (baker, mouse, butcher, farmer), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 baker	det
3	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bread	compound
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
9	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
11	butcher	butch	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 bread	amod
12	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
15	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
17	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 meat	compound
18	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gave	cc
21	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	nsubj
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
23	farmer	farmer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 meat	amod
24	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gave	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gave	cc
27	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	nsubj
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
29	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hay	compound
30	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gave	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gave	cc
33	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gave	nsubj
34	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
35	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hay	compound
36	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gave	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 gave	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 gave	cc
39	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 gave	nsubj
40	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
41	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 milk	compound
42	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 gave	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 gave	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 gave	cc
45	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 gave	nsubj
46	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
47	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 milk	compound
48	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 gave	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 gave	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 gave	cc
51	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 gave	nsubj
52	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
53	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 gave	obj
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 tail	nmod:poss
55	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 tail	amod
56	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 gave	obj
57	again	again	ADV	_	52 gave	advmod
58	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	give	past	the baker	mouse bread		then	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme
2	give	past	mouse	butcher bread			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme
3	give	past	butcher	mouse meat			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme
4	give	past	mouse	farmer meat			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme
5	give	past	farmer	mouse hay			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Theme
6	give	past	mouse	cow hay			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Theme
7	give	past	cow	mouse milk			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
8	give	past	mouse	cat milk			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
9	give	past	cat	baker's own tail	mouse	again	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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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