The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 37

So they reached unhurt the shore of the Happy Island, and wandered through the flowery fields and by the banks of rushing streams, and they knew not hunger nor thirst; neither cold nor heat.

Who acts: children · What happens: reach, wander, rush, not know · To what, where: unhurt shore, flowery fields, hunger

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	So	so	ADV	_	3 reached	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unhurt	unhurt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shore	amod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shore	det
6	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Island	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Island	det
9	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Island	amod
10	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shore	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wandered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wandered	cc
13	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reached	conj
14	through	through	ADP	_	17 fields	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fields	det
16	flowery	flowery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fields	amod
17	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wandered	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 banks	cc
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 banks	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 banks	det
21	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wandered	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 streams	case
23	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 streams	amod
24	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 banks	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 knew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 knew	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 knew	nsubj
28	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reached	parataxis
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 knew	advmod
30	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knew	obj
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	32 thirst	cc
32	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hunger	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 cold	punct
34	neither	neither	ADV	_	35 cold	advmod
35	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reached	parataxis
36	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	37 heat	cc
37	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cold	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	reach	past	children = child	the unhurt shore of the Happy Island		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme
2	wander	past	children = child not said here		the flowery fields	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through field=Trajectory
3	rush	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not know	past	children = child	hunger nor thirst		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer hunger=Stimulus

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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