The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 84

But if he could overcome and kill these two giants he should have his only daughter for a wife, and half his kingdom into the bargain; he might have a hundred horsemen, too, to back him up.”

Who acts: King · What happens: overcome, kill, have, back up · To what, where: bargain, two giants, daughter, hundred horsemen, King

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 (King), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 overcome	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 overcome	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 overcome	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 overcome	aux
5	overcome	overcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kill	cc
7	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 overcome	conj
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 giants	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 giants	nummod
10	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kill	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 giants	acl:relcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughter	nmod:poss
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 daughter	advmod
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 wife	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 wife	det
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kingdom	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 kingdom	cc
22	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	24 kingdom	det:predet
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 kingdom	nmod:poss
24	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overcome	parataxis
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 bargain	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bargain	det
27	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overcome	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 overcome	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hundred	det
33	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 horsemen	nummod
34	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 have	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 too	punct
36	too	too	ADV	_	31 have	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 back	punct
38	to	to	PART	_	39 back	mark
39	back	back	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 have	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 back	obj
41	up	up	ADP	_	39 back	compound:prt
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 overcome	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 overcome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	overcome	could	King		the bargain		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	kill	infinitive	King not said here	this two giants			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme
3	have	should	King	King's daughter		for a wife	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
4	have	might	King	hundred horsemen			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horseman=Patient
5	back up	to-infinitive	King not said here	King			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent

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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