The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 78
“We are not made,” they said, “to hold out against a man who kills seven at a blow.”
Who acts: officers, man · What happens: not make, say, hold out, kill · To what, where: We, seven, blow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (officers, man), 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 | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 made | advmod |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hold | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 hold | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hold | mark |
| 13 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 hold | compound:prt |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hold | obl |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 kills | nsubj |
| 19 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 man | acl:relcl |
| 20 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 kills | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 blow | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 blow | det |
| 23 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kills | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hold | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make in a quote | present · passive | We | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | officers = officer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hold out in a quote | to-infinitive | against a man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against man=Location | |||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | present | a man | seven | a blow | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=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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