The Violet Fairy Book, The Two Frogs, sentence 4

The journey was more tiring than they expected, for they did not know much about travelling, and half way between the two towns there arose a mountain which had to be climbed.

Who acts: journey, frogs, more tiring, mountain · What happens: be, expect, not know, travel, arise, have · To what, where: more tiring, much, way

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Two Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (journey, frogs, more tiring, mountain), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 journey	det
2	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tiring	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tiring	cop
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 tiring	amod
5	tiring	tiring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 expected	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 expected	nsubj
8	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tiring	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 know	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 know	advmod
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 expected	conj
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 know	obj
16	about	about	SCONJ	_	17 travelling	mark
17	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 much	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 arose	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 arose	cc
20	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	21 way	advmod
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 arose	obl
22	between	between	ADP	_	25 towns	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 towns	det
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 towns	nummod
25	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 way	nmod
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 arose	advmod
27	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tiring	acl:relcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 mountain	det
29	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 arose	obj
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 mountain	acl:relcl
32	to	to	PART	_	34 climbed	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 climbed	aux:pass
34	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 had	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tiring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	the journey	more tiring		tree rules
2	expect	past	frogs = frog	more tiring not said here		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiring=Theme
3	not know	past · do-support	frogs = frog	much		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus
4	travel	gerund	frogs = frog not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	arise	past	more tiring not said here	way between the two towns	there	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mountain=Theme
6	have	past	a mountain			tree rules
7	climb	to-infinitive · passive	a mountain not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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