The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 38

The air fed them and the sun warmed them, and they forgot the dead, for they saw no graves, and the young man’s thoughts turned not to wars, neither to the hunting of animals.

Who acts: air, sun, hunger, thoughts, young man · What happens: feed, warm, forget, see, not turn, think · To what, where: hunger, dead, graves, wars, animals

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 (air, sun, hunger, thoughts), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fed	nsubj
3	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 warmed	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warmed	nsubj
8	warmed	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fed	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 warmed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 forgot	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 forgot	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 forgot	nsubj
13	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fed	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dead	det
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 forgot	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 saw	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forgot	parataxis
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 graves	det
21	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 saw	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 turned	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 turned	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 thoughts	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 man	case
28	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 turned	nsubj
29	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saw	conj
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 turned	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 wars	case
32	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 turned	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hunting	punct
34	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	37 hunting	cc:preconj
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 hunting	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hunting	det
37	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 turned	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 animals	case
39	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 hunting	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feed	past	the air	hunger			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	warm	past	the sun	hunger			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	forget	past	hunger	the dead			tree rules
4	see	past	hunger	no graves			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grave=Stimulus
5	not turn	past	the young man's thoughts		wars	to the hunting of animals	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to war=Source to hunting=Trajectory
6	think		the young man				nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
7	hunt			animals			nom hunting «act transitive»: of=patient

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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