The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 15

When he left off he counted the slain, and no fewer than seven lay dead before him with outstretched legs.

Who acts: tailor, seven · What happens: leave off, count, lay, outstretch · To what, where: slain

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, seven), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 left	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 counted	advcl
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 left	compound:prt
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 counted	nsubj
6	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 slain	det
8	slain	slain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 counted	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lay	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lay	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 seven	det
12	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 seven	advmod
13	than	than	ADP	_	12 fewer	fixed
14	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 lay	nsubj
15	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 counted	conj
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lay	xcomp
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lay	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 legs	case
20	outstretched	outstretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 legs	amod
21	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lay	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 counted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave off	past	tailor				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	count	past	tailor	the slain			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slain=Theme
3	lay	present	no seven		before tailor	with outstretched legs; dead property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination
4	outstretch	participle					tree rules

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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