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title: You see, in the tales, how the boy who is kind to beasts, and polite… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andre
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 18

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:1:18
# text = 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.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	27	advmod	_	_
27	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
28	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	27	advmod	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	trials	trial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
35	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	parataxis	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	hearers	hearer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
44	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	unselfish	unselfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	courteous	courteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	courageous	courageous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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