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title: I'll warrant you find the stair easier at home than by such a way; '… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I'll warrant you find the stair easier at home than by such a way; 't was ne'er meant for lassies' feet to travel;" and off he splashed through the water. Who acts: I, stair. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, with its dependency tree and th
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 2

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I'll warrant you find the stair easier at home than by such a way; 't was ne'er meant for lassies' feet to travel;" and off he splashed through the water.

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**Who acts:** I, stair · **What happens:** warrant, find, mean, travel, splash · **To what, where:** you, t, water

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stair), 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:pg14241:30:2
# text = I'll warrant you find the stair easier at home than by such a way; 't was ne'er meant for lassies' feet to travel;" and off he splashed through the water.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	warrant	warrant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stair	stair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	ccomp	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	15	det:predet	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	ne'er	ne'er	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	lassies	lassie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	off	off	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	splashed	splash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	through	through	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warrant** | future | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | past · passive |  | t |  |  |  | for lassies's feet; ne'er *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for foot=Attribute |
| 4 | **travel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **splash** *in a quote* | past | stair |  |  | the water |  | off *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Location |

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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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