The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 33

By this means he passed through the midst of them unseen, and wandered on till he reached the coast, where he re-embarked on board his ship.

Who acts: this, most · What happens: mean, pass, wander, reach, re-embark · To what, where: midst, coast, ship · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, most), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 passed	nsubj
5	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 midst	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 midst	det
8	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 midst	nmod
11	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 passed	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wandered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wandered	cc
14	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
15	on	on	SCONJ	_	18 reached	mark
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 reached	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reached	nsubj
18	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wandered	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 coast	det
20	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reached	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 re-embarked	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 re-embarked	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 re-embarked	nsubj
24	re-embarked	re-embark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 reached	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 ship	case
26	board	board	ADP	_	28 ship	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 ship	nmod:poss
28	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 re-embarked	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present	this			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pass	past	most		the midst of princes	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through midst=Location
3	wander	past	most not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	reach	past	most	the coast		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent coast=Theme
5	re-embark	past	most		most's ship	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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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