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

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg640:28:37
# text = 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.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unhurt	unhurt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	flowery	flowery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
30	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	32	cc	_	_
32	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
34	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
36	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	37	cc	_	_
37	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

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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 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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