The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 31

The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

Who acts: ancient Greeks, world, fairies · What happens: believe, do, be, see, hear · To what, where: old Egyptians, fairies, people

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ancient Greeks, world, fairies), 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	3 Greeks	det
2	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Greeks	amod
3	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 believed	nsubj
4	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 did	advmod
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 believed	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Egyptians	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Egyptians	amod
10	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 did	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Hindoos	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Hindoos	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Hindoos	det
14	Hindoos	Hindoo	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 Egyptians	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Indians	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Indians	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Indians	det
18	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Indians	compound
19	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 Hindoos	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 likely	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 likely	cc
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 likely	cop
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 likely	nsubj
24	likely	likely	ADV	_	4 believed	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 likely	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 are	mark
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 are	expl
28	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 likely	advcl
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 fairies	det
30	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 are	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 seen	punct
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 seen	nsubj
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 many	advmod
34	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 peoples	amod
35	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 peoples	amod
36	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 seen	nsubj:pass
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 seen	aux
38	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 seen	aux
39	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 fairies	acl:relcl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 heard	cc
41	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 seen	conj
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 heard	obj
43	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 believed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	believe	past	the ancient Greeks				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	past		the old Egyptians and the Hindoos and the Red Indians			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egyptian=Eventuality
3	is	present	world			likely property	tree rules
4	does a condition, not said to happen	present	no fairies		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	would · perfect · passive		no fairies			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
6	hear	past		people			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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