The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 87

But I haven’t the smallest need of your hundred horsemen; a fellow who can slay seven men at a blow need not be afraid of two.”

Who acts: I, fellow · What happens: not have, slay, not need, be, need · To what, where: smallest need, seven men, blow, hundred horsemen

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 (I, fellow), 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	_	3 have	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 have	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 need	det
6	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 need	amod
7	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 horsemen	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 horsemen	nmod:poss
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 horsemen	nummod
11	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 need	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 fellow	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fellow	det
14	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	parataxis
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 slay	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 slay	aux
17	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fellow	acl:relcl
18	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 men	nummod
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 slay	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 blow	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 blow	det
22	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 need	obl
23	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 slay	parataxis
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 need	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 afraid	cop
26	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 need	xcomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 two	case
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 afraid	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 slay	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not have	present	I	the smallest need of your hundred horsemen			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
2	slay	can	a fellow	seven men			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
3	not need	present			a blow		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
4	is not said to happen	infinitive				of two; afraid property	tree rules
5	need			your hundred horsemen			nom need «state transitive»: of=patient

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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