The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 1

It is a great mistake to think that fairies, witches, magicians, and such people lived only in Eastern countries and in such times as those of the Caliph Haroun Al-Raschid.

Who acts: It, such people · What happens: be, think, live · To what, where: great mistake, Eastern countries

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, such people), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mistake	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mistake	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mistake	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mistake	amod
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 think	mark
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 mistake	acl
8	that	that	ADP	_	9 fairies	case
9	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 think	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 witches	punct
11	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fairies	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 magicians	punct
13	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fairies	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lived	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lived	cc
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 people	amod
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lived	nsubj
18	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mistake	parataxis
19	only	only	ADV	_	22 countries	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 countries	case
21	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 countries	amod
22	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lived	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 times	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 times	case
25	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 times	amod
26	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 countries	conj
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 those	case
28	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 lived	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 Haroun	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Haroun	det
31	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Haroun	compound
32	Haroun	Haroun	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 those	nmod
33	Al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Haroun	flat
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 Raschid	punct
35	Raschid	Raschid	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Haroun	flat
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mistake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a great mistake			tree rules
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive				that fairies and witches and magicians	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	live	past	such people		Eastern countries and such times	as those	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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