--- title: But probably you who read the tales know very well how much is true… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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 oft --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/1/22/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/1/) / 22 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:1:22 # text = 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. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 probably probably ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 11 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 12 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 17 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 only only ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 make make NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 believe believe VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 yet yet ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 very very ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 38 merely merely ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 39 because because SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 or or CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 46 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 47 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 48 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 advcl _ _ 49 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 53 if if SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 54 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 55 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ _ 56 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 55 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 58 because because SCONJ IN _ 68 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 60 in in ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 compound _ _ 62 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 68 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 nsubj _ _ 66 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 68 cop _ _ 67 often often ADV RB _ 68 advmod _ _ 68 disagreeable disagreeable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/1/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/1/23/) - ↑ back to [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/1/)