The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 80

But as the youth proved too strong for him, he gave it up, and resolved to wait for a better opportunity.

Who acts: youth, half · What happens: prove, give up, resolve, wait · To what, where: youth

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, half), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 proved	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proved	nsubj
5	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gave	advcl
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 strong	advmod
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 proved	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 strong	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 proved	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 gave	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 resolved	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 resolved	cc
17	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gave	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 wait	mark
19	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 resolved	xcomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 opportunity	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 opportunity	det
22	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 opportunity	amod
23	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wait	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prove	past	the youth			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	give up	past	half	youth		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
3	resolve	past	half not said here			tree rules
4	wait	to-infinitive	half not said here		for a better opportunity	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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