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title: The tailor, however, had no notion of being scared, but said cheeril… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The tailor, however, had no notion of being scared, but said cheerily, ‘Bravely dared is half won.’ Who acts: tailor. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 21

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The tailor, however, had no notion of being scared, but said cheerily, ‘Bravely dared is half won.’

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**Who acts:** tailor · **What happens:** have, be, say, dare, win · **To what, where:** notion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever 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), 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:pg7277:51:21
# text = The tailor, however, had no notion of being scared, but said cheerily, ‘Bravely dared is half won.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	notion	notion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	cheerily	cheerily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	dared	dare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	22	advmod	_	_
22	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the tailor | no notion |  |  |  | however *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notion=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | cheerily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dare** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | bravely *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **win** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | half *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V» |

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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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