--- title: ‘I fight you?’ replied Stan, ‘why I could slay you with one breath!’ — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I fight you?’ replied Stan, ‘why I could slay you with one breath!’ Who acts: I, Stan. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/65/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [Stan Bolovan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/) / 65 # The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 65 ‘I fight you?’ replied Stan, ‘why I could slay you with one breath!’ **Who acts:** I, Stan · **What happens:** fight, reply, slay · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Stan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:13:65 # text = ‘I fight you?’ replied Stan, ‘why I could slay you with one breath!’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 fight fight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 7 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Stan Stan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 slay slay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight** | present | I | you | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Stan | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **slay** | could | I | you | | | | with one breath | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with breath=Instrument | 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. **Text:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/66/) - ↑ back to [Stan Bolovan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/)