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title: "Well," said she, "it's from the Good Folk I come, and they bade me… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "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. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 124

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"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."

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**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

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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 (horse, bidding, bones), 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:pg14241:29:124
# text = "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."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	Feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	Feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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