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title: "Feet off my sheep, you anointed rogue! and what would you be taking… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Feet off my sheep, you anointed rogue! and what would you be taking their feet off for?" Who acts: Feet, you. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 107

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"Feet off my sheep, you anointed rogue! and what would you be taking their feet off for?"

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**Who acts:** Feet, you · **What happens:** anoint, take · **To what, where:** rogue, feet

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Feet, you), 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:pg7885:24:107
# text = "Feet off my sheep, you anointed rogue! and what would you be taking their feet off for?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Feet	feet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	anointed	anoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	rogue	rogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	off	off	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **anoint** *in a quote* | past | Feet off my sheep | rogue |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rogue=Theme |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | would · progressive | you | beginning's feet |  |  |  | off *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme 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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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