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title: But if he could overcome and kill these two giants he should have hi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But if he could overcome and kill these two giants he should have his only daughter for a wife, and half his kingdom into the bargain; he might have a hundred horsemen, too, to back him up.” Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor, with its depende
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 84

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But if he could overcome and kill these two giants he should have his only daughter for a wife, and half his kingdom into the bargain; he might have a hundred horsemen, too, to back him up.”

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** overcome, kill, have, back up · **To what, where:** bargain, two giants, daughter, hundred horsemen, King

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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 (King), 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:pg503:42:84
# text = But if he could overcome and kill these two giants he should have his only daughter for a wife, and half his kingdom into the bargain; he might have a hundred horsemen, too, to back him up.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	too	too	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	back	back	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overcome** | could | King |  |  | the bargain |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **kill** | infinitive | King *not said here* | this two giants |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | should | King | King's daughter |  |  |  | for a wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | might | King | hundred horsemen |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horseman=Patient |
| 5 | **back up** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | King |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent |

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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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