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title: The journey was more tiring than they expected, for they did not kno… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Two Frogs, with i
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Two Frogs, sentence 4

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:14:4
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	tiring	tiring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	_
16	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	21	advmod	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	climbed	climb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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» |

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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.

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**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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