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title: 'Milk me and drink as much as you will, little maiden,' cried the co… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: '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. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 40

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'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.'

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

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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.

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**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:pg3027:10:40
# text = '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.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Milk	milk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
16	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	spill	spill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
26	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	25	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
35	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	harmed	harm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
42	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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