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title: I have killed seven at a blow, slain two giants, led a unicorn capti… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I have killed seven at a blow, slain two giants, led a unicorn captive, and caught a wild boar, then why should I be afraid of those men standing outside my door?” Who acts: blow, I, men. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 134

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I have killed seven at a blow, slain two giants, led a unicorn captive, and caught a wild boar, then why should I be afraid of those men standing outside my door?”

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**Who acts:** blow, I, men · **What happens:** kill, lead, catch, be, stand · **To what, where:** I, blow, unicorn captive, wild boar, door

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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 (blow, I, men), 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:pg503:42:134
# text = I have killed seven at a blow, slain two giants, led a unicorn captive, and caught a wild boar, then why should I be afraid of those men standing outside my door?”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
25	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | present · perfect · passive |  | I |  | a blow and slain two giants |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer seven=Result |
| 2 | **lead** | past | a blow and slain two giants *not said here* | a unicorn captive |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** | past |  | a wild boar |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | should | I |  |  |  | then | of that men; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **stand** | gerund | that men *not said here* |  |  | my door |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside door=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:** «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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