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title: Therefore, I am not afraid that you will be afraid of the magicians… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore, I am not afraid that you will be afraid of the magicians and dragons; besides, you see that a really brave boy or girl was always their master, even in the height of their power. Who acts: I, you, besides, brave boy. 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 25

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Therefore, I am not afraid that you will be afraid of the magicians and dragons; besides, you see that a really brave boy or girl was always their master, even in the height of their power.

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**Who acts:** I, you, besides, brave boy · **What happens:** not be, be, see · **To what, where:** master · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, you, besides, brave 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:pg7277:1:25
# text = Therefore, I am not afraid that you will be afraid of the magicians and dragons; besides, you see that a really brave boy or girl was always their master, even in the height of their power.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	besides	beside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	really	really	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	32	advmod	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	even	even	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | afraid, therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | future | you |  |  |  |  | of the magicians and dragons; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | present | besides |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | past | a brave boy or girl | besides's master and the height of besides's power |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |

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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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