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title: They said Four Feet would bring me to No Feet at all, and No Feet at… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 138

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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."

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**Who acts:** stairs, Four Feet, Feet · **What happens:** say, bring, carry · **To what, where:** me, all, stairs · **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 (stairs, Four Feet, 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:pg14241:29:138
# text = 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."
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	Feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	Feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	Feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nmod	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|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	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	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 | 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 |

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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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