--- title: Methought thou didst go and fetch me wolf's milk, and I drank of it,… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Methought thou didst go and fetch me wolf's milk, and I drank of it, and my health came back to me, for I am so weak that God grant I die not."--"I'll fetch it," said her brother. Who acts: Methought, I, health, brother. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Methought, I, health, brother), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:5:66 # text = Methought thou didst go and fetch me wolf's milk, and I drank of it, and my health came back to me, for I am so weak that God grant I die not."--"I'll fetch it," said her brother. 1 Methought Methought PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 3 didst do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 fetch fetch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 back back ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 grant grant NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 advcl _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 -- -- PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 parataxis _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 47 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 48 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Methought | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | Methought *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fetch** | infinitive | Methought *not said here* | wolf's milk | me | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary milk=Theme | | 4 | **drink** | past | I | | | | | of milk | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source | | 5 | **come back** | past | my health | | me | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **is** | present | I | | | | | weak *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **die** | present | I | God grant *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **fetch** | future | I | milk | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | wolf's brother | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/67/) - ↑ back to [The Voices At the Window, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/)