The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 35
Only the children had no fear, and reached the other side in safety.
Who acts: children · What happens: have, reach · To what, where: fear, other side, safety
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 (children), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 fear | det |
| 6 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reached | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 reached | cc |
| 9 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 side | amod |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 safety | case |
| 14 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 side | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the children | no fear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | the children not said here | the other side | safety | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=Theme |
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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