The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 111
“I’m even less afraid of one unicorn than of two giants; seven at a blow, that’s my motto.”
Who acts: tailor · What happens: be · To what, where: seven
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 (tailor), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 less | advmod |
| 5 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 afraid | advmod |
| 6 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’m | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 unicorn | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 unicorn | nummod |
| 9 | unicorn | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 afraid | obl |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 giants | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 giants | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 giants | nummod |
| 13 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 afraid | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 seven | punct |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 ’m | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 blow | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 blow | det |
| 18 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seven | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ’s | punct |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 ’s | nsubj |
| 21 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ’m | conj |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 motto | nmod:poss |
| 23 | motto | motto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ’s | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | tailor | seven at a blow | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 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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