How to read this?
Please someone help me to read this line (underlined).
See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery
fire. Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a
few last wolves.
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There are two clauses: Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few last wolves. The first part is an inverted way of saying "dark turned fields with rags of snow lie outside".
- There are two clauses: Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few last wolves.
- The first part is an inverted way of saying "dark turned fields with rags of snow lie outside".
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There are two clauses:
Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow
and
darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few last wolves.
The first part is an inverted way of saying "dark turned fields with rags of snow lie outside".
0Hmmm ... it occurred to me later that there are two ways of parsing this sentence:
A) [Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow] and [darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few last wolves] (per my original reply)
B) Outside lie [dark turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few last wolves]
In A, "beyond that" means "beyond the place w
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