The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 31
The airy fairy fancies of happy Dreamland never grow old; they, like the glorious stars above us, are always young.
Who acts: airy fairy fancies · What happens: not grow, be, fancy · To what, where: diamonds, happy Dreamland
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (airy fairy fancies), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fancies | det |
| 2 | airy | airy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fancies | amod |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fancies | compound |
| 4 | fancies | fancy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grow | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Dreamland | case |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Dreamland | amod |
| 7 | Dreamland | Dreamland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fancies | nmod |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 grow | advmod |
| 9 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grow | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 they | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 grow | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stars | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 stars | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stars | det |
| 16 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stars | amod |
| 17 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grow | obl |
| 18 | above | above | ADP | _ | 19 us | case |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 stars | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 young | punct |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 young | cop |
| 22 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 young | advmod |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grow | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grow | present | the airy fairy fancies of happy Dreamland | diamonds = diamond | like the glorious stars above us; old property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | the airy fairy fancies of happy Dreamland not said here | always, young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fancy | happy Dreamland | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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