--- title: Going looking for a cow, cow to give me milk, milk I will give to th… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Going looking for a cow, cow to give me milk, milk I will give to the cat, cat to scrape butter, butter to go in claw of hound, hound to hunt deer, deer to swim water, water to wet flag, flag to edge axe, axe to cut a rod, a rod to make a gad, a gad to hang Manachar, who ate my raspberries every one --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/14/46/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [Munachar and Manachar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/14/) / 46 # Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar, sentence 46 Going looking for a cow, cow to give me milk, milk I will give to the cat, cat to scrape butter, butter to go in claw of hound, hound to hunt deer, deer to swim water, water to wet flag, flag to edge axe, axe to cut a rod, a rod to make a gad, a gad to hang Manachar, who ate my raspberries every one." **Who acts:** I, Manachar · **What happens:** go, look, give, scrape, hunt, swim · **To what, where:** milk, me, cat, butter, claw, deer This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Munachar and Manachar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Manachar), 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:pg7885:14:46 # text = Going looking for a cow, cow to give me milk, milk I will give to the cat, cat to scrape butter, butter to go in claw of hound, hound to hunt deer, deer to swim water, water to wet flag, flag to edge axe, axe to cut a rod, a rod to make a gad, a gad to hang Manachar, who ate my raspberries every one." 1 Going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 csubj _ _ 2 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 xcomp _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 iobj _ _ 11 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 scrape scrape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 24 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 claw claw NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 hound hound NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 hound hound NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 37 deer deer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 42 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 flag flag NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 flag flag NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ _ 50 to to PART TO _ 52 mark _ _ 51 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 52 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 54 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 conj _ _ 55 to to PART TO _ 56 mark _ _ 56 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 54 acl _ _ 57 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 60 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 conj _ _ 62 to to PART TO _ 63 mark _ _ 63 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 61 acl _ _ 64 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 gad gad NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 67 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 gad gad NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 appos _ _ 69 to to PART TO _ 70 mark _ _ 70 hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 68 acl _ _ 71 Manachar Manachar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 74 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 72 , , PUNCT , _ 74 punct _ _ 73 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 74 nsubj _ _ 74 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 70 ccomp _ _ 75 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 76 nmod:poss _ _ 76 raspberries raspberry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 74 obj _ _ 77 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 78 det _ _ 78 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 74 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 79 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 80 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | for a cow and cow | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for cow=Theme | | 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | | milk and milk | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient milk=Theme | | 4 | **give** | future | I | | the cat and cat | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cat=Recipient | | 5 | **scrape** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | butter and butter | | | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Patient | | 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | claw of hound and hound | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in claw=Location | | 7 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | deer and deer | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | | 8 | **swim** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | water and water | | | | to wet flag and flag and edge axe and axe and a rod | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Trajectory | | 9 | **cut** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a rod | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rod=Product | | 10 | **make** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a gad | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gad=Product | | 11 | **hang** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a gad *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 12 | **eat** | past | Manachar | my raspberries | | | | | tree rules | 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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/14/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/14/47/) - ↑ back to [Munachar and Manachar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/14/)