The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 23

If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer going about the world, whatever he may have done long, long ago.

Who acts: frightful monsters, tales, kind · What happens: be, not frighten, go, do · To what, where: you, whatever

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 (frightful monsters, tales, kind), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 are	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 are	expl
3	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 frighten	advcl
4	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 monsters	amod
5	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 are	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 tales	case
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tales	compound
8	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 monsters	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 are	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 frighten	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 frighten	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 frighten	advmod
13	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 frighten	obj
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 frighten	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 going	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 going	mark
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 kind	det
19	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 going	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 monster	case
21	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kind	nmod
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 going	aux
23	no	no	ADV	_	24 longer	advmod
24	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 going	advmod
25	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 frighten	advcl
26	about	about	ADP	_	28 world	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 world	det
28	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 going	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 done	punct
30	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 done	obj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 done	nsubj
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 done	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 done	aux
34	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 frighten	parataxis
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 done	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ago	punct
37	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 ago	advmod
38	ago	ago	ADV	_	34 done	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 frighten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does a condition, not said to happen	present	frightful monsters in fairy tales		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not frighten	present · do-support	tales = tale	you		now		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
3	go	present · progressive	that kind of monster				about the world; long property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about world=Location
4	do	may · perfect	kind	whatever			ago, long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality

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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