The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 90
Most of those who have gone before me have wandered they know not where, and perished from cold, hunger, or fatigue.’
Who acts: enchantments · What happens: go, wander, not know, perish · To what, where: Most, cold
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enchantments), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 wandered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 those | case |
| 3 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 Most | nmod |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 those | acl:relcl |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 gone | obl |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wandered | aux |
| 10 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wandered | ccomp |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 know | advmod |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 know | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 perished | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 perished | cc |
| 17 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 wandered | parataxis |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 cold | case |
| 19 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 perished | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hunger | punct |
| 21 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wandered | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fatigue | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 fatigue | cc |
| 24 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wandered | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wandered | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · perfect | before me | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before i=Location | |||||
| 2 | wander | present · perfect · passive | Most of those | hunger obl; fatigue obl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not know | present | enchantments = enchantment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | perish | participle | cold | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from cold=Causer |
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 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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