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title: “Pray, Cow, give me milk, that I may give cat milk, that cat may giv… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Pray, Cow, give me milk, that I may give cat milk, that cat may give me my own tail again.” Who acts: Pray, cat. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cat and the Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Cat and the Mouse, sentence 6

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“Pray, Cow, give me milk, that I may give cat milk, that cat may give me my own tail again.”

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**Who acts:** Pray, cat · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** milk, cat, cat milk, own tail

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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 (Pray, cat), 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:pg7439:40:6
# text = “Pray, Cow, 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	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	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	milk	milk	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	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	cat	cat	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	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | Pray and Cow | milk | the cat *= cat* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient milk=Theme |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | may | the cat *= cat* | cat milk |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | may | that cat | my own tail | the cat *= cat* |  | again |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient tail=Theme |

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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:** «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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