The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 57

But he remembered that fear disgraces a man; so he struggled to be brave and make the best of things.

Who acts: boy, fear · What happens: remember, disgrace, struggle, be, make · To what, where: man, best · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, fear), 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	_	3 remembered	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 remembered	nsubj
3	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 fear	det
5	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 disgraces	nsubj
6	disgraces	disgrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 remembered	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 disgraces	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 struggled	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 struggled	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 struggled	nsubj
12	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remembered	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	15 brave	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 brave	cop
15	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 struggled	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 make	cc
17	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 remembered	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 best	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 make	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 things	case
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 best	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember	past	boy			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	disgrace	present	that fear	a man		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer
3	struggle	past	boy			vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	to-infinitive	boy not said here		brave property	tree rules
5	make	present	boy not said here	the best of things		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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