The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 171

But in spite of all his efforts he could not find his way out of the forest, and he began to think he should have to pass the night there.

Who acts: youth · What happens: not find, begin, think, have, pass, spite · To what, where: way, spite, efforts · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	_	11 find	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 spite	case
3	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 efforts	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 efforts	det:predet
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 efforts	nmod:poss
7	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spite	nmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 find	advmod
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 way	nmod:poss
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 forest	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 find	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 think	mark
23	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 think	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 pass	mark
28	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 have	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pass	obj
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 pass	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	could	youth	youth's way	spite of youth's efforts		out the forest	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
2	begin	past	youth					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	youth not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	should	youth					tree rules
5	pass	to-infinitive	youth not said here		there	night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	spite			youth's efforts				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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