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title: But I haven’t the smallest need of your hundred horsemen; a fellow w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But I haven’t the smallest need of your hundred horsemen; a fellow who can slay seven men at a blow need not be afraid of two.” Who acts: I, fellow. 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 87

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But I haven’t the smallest need of your hundred horsemen; a fellow who can slay seven men at a blow need not be afraid of two.”

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**Who acts:** I, fellow · **What happens:** not have, slay, not need, be, need · **To what, where:** smallest need, seven men, blow, hundred horsemen

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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 (I, fellow), 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:pg503:42:87
# text = But I haven’t the smallest need of your hundred horsemen; a fellow who can slay seven men at a blow need not be afraid of two.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
23	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present | I | the smallest need of your hundred horsemen |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient |
| 2 | **slay** | can | a fellow | seven men |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **need** | present |  |  |  | a blow |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of two; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **need** |  |  | your hundred horsemen |  |  |  |  | nom need «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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