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title: ‘One slew none and yet killed twelve.’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘One slew none and yet killed twelve.’ A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 35

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‘One slew none and yet killed twelve.’

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**What happens:** kill · **To what, where:** twelve

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7277:47:35
# text = ‘One slew none and yet killed twelve.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	slew	slew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | participle |  | twelve |  |  | yet |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Theme |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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