The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 21

There are grown-up people now who say that the stories are not good for children, because they are not true, because there are no witches, nor talking beasts, and because people are killed in them, especially wicked giants.

Who acts: grown people, stories, witches · What happens: grow up, say, not be, be, talk, kill · To what, where: beasts, people · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (grown people, stories, witches), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 grown	expl
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grown	aux:pass
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 people	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 grown	compound:prt
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 say	nsubj
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 say	advmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 good	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stories	det
12	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 good	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 good	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 good	advmod
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 say	ccomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 children	case
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 good	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 true	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 true	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 true	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 true	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 true	advmod
23	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 good	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 are	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 are	mark
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 are	expl
27	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	conj
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 witches	det
29	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 are	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 talking	punct
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	32 talking	cc
32	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 say	advcl
33	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 talking	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 killed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 killed	cc
36	because	because	SCONJ	_	39 killed	mark
37	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 killed	nsubj:pass
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 killed	aux:pass
39	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 say	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 killed	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 giants	punct
43	especially	especially	ADV	_	45 giants	advmod
44	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 giants	amod
45	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 killed	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	present · passive			there			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»
2	say speech: assert	present	grown people			now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	the stories				for children; good property	tree rules
4	not is	present	stories = story				true property	tree rules
5	does	present	no witches		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	talk	gerund	grown people not said here	beasts				vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent beast=Patient
7	kill	present · passive		people			in witches = witch; wicked giants obl	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 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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