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title: Most of those who have gone before me have wandered they know not wh… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of those who have gone before me have wandered they know not where, and perished from cold, hunger, or fatigue.’ Who acts: enchantments. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 90

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Most of those who have gone before me have wandered they know not where, and perished from cold, hunger, or fatigue.’

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**Who acts:** enchantments · **What happens:** go, wander, not know, perish · **To what, where:** Most, cold

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enchantments), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:26:90
# text = Most of those who have gone before me have wandered they know not where, and perished from cold, hunger, or fatigue.’
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	1	nmod	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	wandered	wander	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  | before me |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before i=Location |
| 2 | **wander** | present · perfect · passive |  | Most of those |  |  |  | hunger *obl*; fatigue *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **know** | present | enchantments *= enchantment* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **perish** | participle |  |  |  | cold |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from cold=Causer |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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