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title: "Now get you down," said the horse; "I've brought ye to the end of t… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Now get you down," said the horse; "I've brought ye to the end of the land, and that's as much as Four Feet can do. Who acts: horse, that, Four Feet. 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 cl
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 128

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"Now get you down," said the horse; "I've brought ye to the end of the land, and that's as much as Four Feet can do.

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**Who acts:** horse, that, Four Feet · **What happens:** get down, say, bring, be, do · **To what, where:** you, ye, end · **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, that, 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:pg14241:29:128
# text = "Now get you down," said the horse; "I've brought ye to the end of the land, and that's as much as Four Feet can do.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
16	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	Feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get down** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | you |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the horse *= horse* | ye |  |  | to the end of the land |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ye=Theme to end=Destination |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | can | Four Feet |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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