The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 18

You see, in the tales, how the boy who is kind to beasts, and polite, and generous, and brave, always comes best through his trials, and no doubt these tales were meant to make their hearers kind, unselfish, courteous, and courageous.

Who acts: You, boy · What happens: see, be, come, mean, make, try · To what, where: tales, trials, doubt, hearers

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Green Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, boy), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tales	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 tales	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tales	det
6	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kind	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 kind	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kind	nsubj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 kind	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 kind	cop
13	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tales	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 beasts	case
15	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kind	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 polite	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 polite	cc
18	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kind	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 generous	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 generous	cc
21	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kind	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 brave	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 brave	cc
24	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 see	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 comes	punct
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 comes	advmod
27	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	parataxis
28	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 comes	advmod
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 trials	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 trials	nmod:poss
31	trials	trial	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 comes	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 meant	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 meant	cc
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 doubt	det
35	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 meant	nsubj:pass
36	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 tales	det
37	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 meant	nsubj:pass
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 meant	aux:pass
39	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 comes	parataxis
40	to	to	PART	_	41 make	mark
41	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 meant	xcomp
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 hearers	nmod:poss
43	hearers	hearer	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 make	obj
44	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 make	xcomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 unselfish	punct
46	unselfish	unselfish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 kind	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 courteous	punct
48	courteous	courteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 kind	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 courageous	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 courageous	cc
51	courageous	courageous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 meant	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	You	the tales			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus
2	is	present	the boy			to beasts; kind property	tree rules
3	be		the boy not said here				tree rules
4	be		the boy not said here				tree rules
5	come	present			boy's trials	always, well property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through trial=Initial_Location
6	mean	past · passive		no doubt			tree rules
7	make not said to happen	to-infinitive		tales's hearers		kind property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hearer=Product
8	try		boy				nom trial «act transitive»: poss=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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