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title: Ask Four Feet to carry you to No Feet at all, and tell No Feet at al… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 117

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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--"

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**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

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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.

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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:pg14241:29:117
# text = 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--"
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	Feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	Feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
15	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	Feet	feet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	without	without	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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:** «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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