The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 30

He passed through them without knowing it, for indeed, they were not rocks and trees at all, but only the souls of them; for this was the Land of Shadows.

Who acts: thought, trees, this · What happens: pass, know, not be, be · To what, where: path, rocks, all

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, trees, this), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 passed	obl
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 knowing	mark
6	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 passed	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knowing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rocks	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 indeed	case
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	15 rocks	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rocks	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rocks	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 rocks	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 rocks	advmod
15	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 trees	cc
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rocks	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 rocks	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 souls	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 souls	cc
22	only	only	ADV	_	24 souls	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 souls	det
24	souls	soul	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rocks	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 souls	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 Land	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	32 Land	case
29	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 Land	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 Land	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Land	det
32	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Shadows	case
34	Shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 Land	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	thought			through trees = tree	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through they=Location
2	know	gerund	thought not said here	path			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	not is a	past	trees = tree	rocks and trees but the souls of rocks	all		tree rules
4	is	past	this			for the Land; of Shadows	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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