More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 124

"Well," said she, "it's from the Good Folk I come, and they bade me tell Four Feet to carry me to No Feet at all."

Who acts: horse, bidding, bones · What happens: say, be, come, bade, tell, carry · To what, where: Good Folk, horse, Four Feet, all · 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 (horse, bidding, bones), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Folk	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Folk	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 Folk	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Folk	cop
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 Folk	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Folk	det
13	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Folk	amod
14	Folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
16	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Folk	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bade	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bade	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bade	nsubj
20	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 bade	obj
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 bade	xcomp
23	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 Feet	nummod
24	Feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tell	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 carry	mark
26	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tell	ccomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 carry	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 Feet	case
29	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 Feet	det
30	Feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 carry	obl
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 all	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 carry	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	horse				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	bidding		the Good Folk		tree rules
3	come in a quote	present	horse	the Good Folk not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location folk=Theme
4	bade in a quote	past	bones = bone	horse			tree rules
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	bones = bone not said here	Four Feet			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent foot=Recipient clause=Topic
6	carry not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		horse	all	to no Feet	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to foot=Destination

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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