More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 117

Ask Four Feet to carry you to No Feet at all, and tell No Feet at all to carry you to the stairs without steps, and if you can climb that--"

Who acts: you, Four Feet · What happens: ask, carry, tell, climb · To what, where: Four Feet, you, all, Feet, stairs, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Four Feet), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 Feet	nummod
3	Feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ask	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 carry	mark
5	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 carry	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Feet	case
8	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 Feet	det
9	Feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 carry	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	parataxis
15	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 Feet	det
16	Feet	feet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 tell	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 carry	mark
20	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tell	advcl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 carry	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 stairs	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stairs	det
24	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 carry	obl
25	without	without	ADP	_	26 steps	case
26	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 carry	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 climb	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 climb	cc
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 climb	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 climb	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 climb	aux
32	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	parataxis
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 climb	obj
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 climb	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	Four Feet			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent foot=Recipient clause=Topic
2	carry not said to happen	to-infinitive	Four Feet not said here	you	all	to no Feet	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to foot=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive		no Feet	all		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feet=Recipient
4	carry	to-infinitive		you	the stairs	without steps	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to stair=Destination
5	climb a condition, not said to happen	can	you	that			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location that=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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