--- title: Then the baker gave mouse bread, and mouse gave butcher bread, and b… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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! 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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 (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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:40:17 # text = 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! 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 baker baker NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 butcher butch ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 butcher butcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 farmer farmer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 35 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 41 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 46 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 47 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 51 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 52 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 53 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 54 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 56 nmod:poss _ _ 55 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 57 again again ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/40/16/) - next →: [The Fish and the Ring, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/1/) - ↑ back to [The Cat and the Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/40/)