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title: When he left off he counted the slain, and no fewer than seven lay d… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he left off he counted the slain, and no fewer than seven lay dead before him with outstretched legs. Who acts: tailor, seven. 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 15

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When he left off he counted the slain, and no fewer than seven lay dead before him with outstretched legs.

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**Who acts:** tailor, seven · **What happens:** leave off, count, lay, outstretch · **To what, where:** slain

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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, seven), 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:pg503:42:15
# text = When he left off he counted the slain, and no fewer than seven lay dead before him with outstretched legs.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
12	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	outstretched	outstretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave off** | past | tailor |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **count** | past | tailor | the slain |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slain=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | present | no seven |  |  |  | before tailor | with outstretched legs; dead *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination |
| 4 | **outstretch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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