--- title: “Pray, Butcher, give me meat, that I may give farmer meat, that farm… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “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. 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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 (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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:40:12 # text = “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.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Pray Pray PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 Butcher Butcher PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 14 farmer farmer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 28 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 parataxis _ _ 35 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ _ 36 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 42 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 46 det _ _ 46 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 47 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 49 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 iobj _ _ 50 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 51 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 53 again again ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/40/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/40/13/) - ↑ back to [The Cat and the Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/40/)