The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 2

Fairies and their like belong to every country and every age, and no doubt we should see plenty of them now--if we only knew how.

Who acts: Fairies, doubt, we · What happens: belong, see, know · To what, where: plenty

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 (Fairies, doubt, we), 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	Fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 belong	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 like	cc
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 like	nmod:poss
4	like	like	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fairies	conj
5	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 country	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 country	det
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belong	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 age	cc
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 age	det
11	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 country	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 see	cc
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 doubt	det
15	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	nsubj
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 belong	conj
19	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 plenty	nmod
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 see	advmod
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 knew	punct
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 knew	mark
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 knew	nsubj
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 knew	advmod
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 see	parataxis
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 knew	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 belong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	belong	present	Fairies and fairies's like			to every country and every age	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	see	should	no doubt	plenty of fairies	now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plenty=Stimulus
3	know a condition, not said to happen	past	we				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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