More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 138

They said Four Feet would bring me to No Feet at all, and No Feet at all would carry me to the stairs without steps."

Who acts: stairs, Four Feet, Feet · What happens: say, bring, carry · To what, where: me, all, stairs · 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 (stairs, Four Feet, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 Feet	nummod
4	Feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bring	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bring	aux
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 bring	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Feet	case
9	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 Feet	det
10	Feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bring	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 bring	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 carry	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 carry	cc
15	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 Feet	det
16	Feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 carry	nsubj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 Feet	nmod
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 carry	aux
20	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 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	_	2 said	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	stairs = stair				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bring	would	Four Feet	me	all	to no Feet	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to foot=Destination
3	carry	would	no Feet at all	me	the stairs	without steps	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to stair=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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