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title: “I’m even less afraid of one unicorn than of two giants; seven at a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I’m even less afraid of one unicorn than of two giants; seven at a blow, that’s my motto.” Who acts: tailor. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 111

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“I’m even less afraid of one unicorn than of two giants; seven at a blow, that’s my motto.”

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**Who acts:** tailor · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** seven

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor), 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:pg503:42:111
# text = “I’m even less afraid of one unicorn than of two giants; seven at a blow, that’s my motto.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	motto	motto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | tailor | seven at a blow |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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