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title: If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Green Fairy Boo
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 23

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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.

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

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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 (frightful monsters, tales, kind), 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:pg7277:1:23
# text = 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.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	frighten	frighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	no	no	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux	_	_
34	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	parataxis	_	_
35	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
38	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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