The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 27

Night and day, over mountains and through valleys, in cold or in heat, they struggled on, enduring fatigue and hunger and every hardship, and consoled only by the hope of meeting once more--until three years had passed, and at last they stood upon the cliffs where the river flowed into the mighty sea.

Who acts: Sylvain, river, meeting · What happens: struggle, endure, console, pass, stand, flow · To what, where: fatigue, three years, last, mighty sea

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sylvain, river, meeting), 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	Night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 struggled	obl:unmarked
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 day	cc
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Night	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mountains	punct
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 mountains	case
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Night	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 valleys	cc
8	through	through	ADP	_	9 valleys	case
9	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Night	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cold	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 cold	case
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Night	conj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 heat	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 heat	case
15	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cold	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Night	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 struggled	nsubj
18	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	on	on	ADV	_	18 struggled	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 enduring	punct
21	enduring	endure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 struggled	advcl
22	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 enduring	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hunger	cc
24	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fatigue	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hardship	cc
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 hardship	det
27	hardship	hardship	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fatigue	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 consoled	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 consoled	cc
30	consoled	console	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 struggled	conj
31	only	only	ADV	_	34 hope	advmod
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 hope	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hope	det
34	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 consoled	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 meeting	case
36	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hope	nmod
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	38 more	advmod
38	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 consoled	advmod
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	44 passed	punct
40	until	until	SCONJ	_	44 passed	mark
41	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 years	nummod
42	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 passed	nsubj:pass
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 passed	aux
44	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 consoled	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 stood	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 stood	cc
47	at	at	ADP	_	48 last	case
48	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 stood	obl
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 stood	nsubj
50	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 passed	conj
51	upon	upon	ADP	_	53 cliffs	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 cliffs	det
53	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 stood	obl
54	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	57 flowed	advmod
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 river	det
56	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 flowed	nsubj
57	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 stood	advcl
58	into	into	ADP	_	61 sea	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 sea	det
60	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 sea	amod
61	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 flowed	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 struggled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	struggle	past	Sylvain			night		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	endure	gerund	Sylvain not said here	fatigue and hunger and every hardship				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fatigue=Circumstance
3	console	participle	Sylvain not said here				by the hope of meeting	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	pass	past · perfect · passive		three years				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
5	stand	past	Sylvain		last		upon the cliffs	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location
6	flow	past	the river		the mighty sea			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hope		meeting					nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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