The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 134

I have killed seven at a blow, slain two giants, led a unicorn captive, and caught a wild boar, then why should I be afraid of those men standing outside my door?”

Who acts: blow, I, men · What happens: kill, lead, catch, be, stand · To what, where: I, blow, unicorn captive, wild boar, door

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 (blow, I, men), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 killed	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 killed	aux
3	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 killed	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 blow	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 blow	det
7	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 killed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 giants	punct
9	slain	slain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 giants	amod
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 giants	nummod
11	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 blow	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 led	punct
13	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 blow	acl:relcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 captive	det
15	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 captive	compound
16	captive	captive	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 led	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 caught	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 caught	cc
19	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 killed	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 boar	det
21	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boar	amod
22	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 caught	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 afraid	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 afraid	advmod
25	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 afraid	advmod
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 afraid	aux
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 afraid	nsubj
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 afraid	cop
29	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 caught	advcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 men	case
31	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 men	det
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 afraid	obl
33	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 men	acl
34	outside	outside	ADP	_	36 door	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 door	nmod:poss
36	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 standing	obl
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 killed	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present · perfect · passive		I	a blow and slain two giants			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer seven=Result
2	lead	past	a blow and slain two giants not said here	a unicorn captive				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=Theme
3	catch	past		a wild boar				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Theme
4	is	should	I			then	of that men; afraid property	tree rules
5	stand	gerund	that men not said here		my door			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside door=Location

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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