The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 22

But probably you who read the tales know very well how much is true and how much is only make-believe, and I never yet heard of a child who killed a very tall man merely because Jack killed the giants, or who was unkind to his stepmother, if he had one, because, in fairy tales, the stepmother is often disagreeable.

Who acts: you, tales, much, I, child, Jack · What happens: read, know, be, believe, not hear, kill · To what, where: make, tall man, giants, one · 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 (you, tales, much, I), 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 read	cc
2	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 read	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 read	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 read	nsubj
5	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tales	det
7	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 know	nsubj
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 read	ccomp
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 well	advmod
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 much	advmod
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 true	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 true	cop
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 know	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 make	cc
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 make	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 make	cop
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 make	advmod
20	make	make	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 true	conj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 believe	punct
22	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 make	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 heard	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 heard	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 heard	nsubj
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 heard	advmod
27	yet	yet	ADV	_	28 heard	advmod
28	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 read	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 child	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 child	det
31	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 heard	obl
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 killed	nsubj
33	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 child	acl:relcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 man	det
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 tall	advmod
36	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 man	amod
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 killed	obj
38	merely	merely	ADV	_	33 killed	advmod
39	because	because	SCONJ	_	41 killed	mark
40	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 killed	nsubj
41	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 heard	ccomp
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 giants	det
43	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 killed	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 unkind	punct
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 unkind	cc
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 unkind	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 unkind	cop
48	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 killed	advcl
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 stepmother	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 stepmother	nmod:poss
51	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 unkind	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 had	punct
53	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 had	mark
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 had	nsubj
55	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 killed	conj
56	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	55 had	obj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 disagreeable	punct
58	because	because	SCONJ	_	68 disagreeable	mark
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 tales	punct
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 tales	case
61	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 tales	compound
62	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 disagreeable	nsubj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 tales	punct
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 stepmother	det
65	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 disagreeable	nsubj
66	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	68 disagreeable	cop
67	often	often	ADV	_	68 disagreeable	advmod
68	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 had	conj
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	you			probably property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	present	the tales				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	much			true property	tree rules
4	is a	present	much	make			tree rules
5	believe	infinitive					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	not hear	participle	I		yet	of a child	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	kill	past	a child	a tall man		merely property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
8	kill	past	Jack	the giants			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme
9	is	past				to giant's stepmother; unkind property	tree rules
10	have a condition, not said to happen	past	Jack	one			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
11	is	present	fairy tales			disagreeable, often property	tree rules

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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