The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 170

The difficulties he met with--huge rocks to be climbed, deep rivers to be crossed, and thorny tracts to be avoided--only served to make his heart beat quicker, for he was really brave all through, and not merely when he could not help himself, like a great many people.

Who acts: youth, difficulties · What happens: meet, climb, cross, avoid, serve, make · To what, where: difficulties, thorny tracts, heart, youth

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, difficulties), 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 difficulties	det
2	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 beat	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 difficulties	acl:relcl
5	with	with	ADP	_	4 met	obl
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 rocks	punct
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rocks	amod
8	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 difficulties	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	11 climbed	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 climbed	aux:pass
11	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 rocks	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rivers	punct
13	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rivers	amod
14	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 difficulties	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 crossed	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 crossed	aux:pass
17	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 rivers	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 avoided	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 avoided	cc
20	thorny	thorny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tracts	amod
21	tracts	tract	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 avoided	nsubj:pass
22	to	to	PART	_	24 avoided	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 avoided	aux:pass
24	avoided	avoid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 difficulties	parataxis
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 served	punct
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 served	advmod
27	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 avoided	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 make	mark
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 served	advcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 heart	nmod:poss
31	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
32	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	quicker	quick	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 beat	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 brave	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 brave	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 brave	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 brave	cop
38	really	really	ADV	_	39 brave	advmod
39	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 beat	parataxis
40	all	all	ADV	_	41 through	advmod
41	through	through	ADV	_	39 brave	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 help	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 help	cc
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 merely	advmod
45	merely	merely	ADV	_	50 help	advmod
46	when	when	SCONJ	_	50 help	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 help	nsubj
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 help	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 help	advmod
50	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 beat	conj
51	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	50 help	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 people	punct
53	like	like	ADP	_	57 people	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 people	det
55	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 people	amod
56	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 people	amod
57	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 help	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	meet	past	youth	the difficulties and huge rocks and deep rivers not said here		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Co-Agent
2	climb	to-infinitive · passive	the difficulties and huge rocks and deep rivers not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»
3	cross	to-infinitive · passive	the difficulties and huge rocks and deep rivers not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»
4	avoid	to-infinitive · passive		thorny tracts		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location
5	serve	participle				vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
6	make	to-infinitive		youth's heart		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heart=Product
7	beat	present	the difficulties and huge rocks and deep rivers		quick property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	past	youth		brave, through property	tree rules
9	not help	could	youth	youth	like a great many people; merely property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary

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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