The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 84

This discouraged the old people so much that they gave up all thought of finishing the journey, and only wished to get back to Denmark as quickly as they could.

Who acts: This, people, thought · What happens: discourage, give up, finish, wish, get back · To what, where: old people, thought, journey, Denmark

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, people, thought), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 discouraged	nsubj
2	discouraged	discourage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 discouraged	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	2 discouraged	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 gave	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 discouraged	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 gave	compound:prt
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 thought	det
13	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 finishing	mark
15	finishing	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 thought	acl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 journey	det
17	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 finishing	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wished	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wished	cc
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 wished	advmod
21	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 discouraged	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wished	advcl
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 get	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 Denmark	case
26	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 get	obl
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 quickly	advmod
28	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	23 get	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 could	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 could	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 quickly	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 discouraged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	discourage	past	This	the old people			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer
2	give up	past	people	all thought			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Source
3	finish	gerund	all thought not said here	the journey			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality journey=Eventuality
4	wish	participle	This not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	get back	to-infinitive	This not said here		Denmark	quickly property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to denmark=Result

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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