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title: The airy fairy fancies of happy Dreamland never grow old; they, like… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 31

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The airy fairy fancies of happy Dreamland never grow old; they, like the glorious stars above us, are always young.

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**Who acts:** airy fairy fancies · **What happens:** not grow, be, fancy · **To what, where:** diamonds, happy Dreamland

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:15:31
# text = The airy fairy fancies of happy Dreamland never grow old; they, like the glorious stars above us, are always young.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	airy	airy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fancies	fancy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Dreamland	Dreamland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
18	above	above	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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