The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 24

Many knew the pretty boy, and were fond of him, but it was all in vain.

Who acts: Many, plenty · What happens: know, be · To what, where: pretty boy

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, plenty), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fond	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fond	cc
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fond	cop
9	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	parataxis
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fond	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 vain	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 vain	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 vain	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 vain	cop
16	all	all	ADV	_	18 vain	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 vain	case
18	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fond	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	Many	the pretty boy		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
2	is	past			of boy; fond property	tree rules
3	is	past	plenty		all, vain property	tree rules

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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