Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 9

The little boy had no other premature questions to ask, and, after a pause, Uncle Remus resumed:

Who acts: little boy, Uncle · What happens: have, ask, resume · To what, where: other premature questions

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, Uncle), 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	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 questions	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 questions	amod
7	premature	premature	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 questions	amod
8	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 ask	mark
10	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 resumed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 resumed	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 and	punct
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 pause	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pause	det
16	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 resumed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pause	punct
18	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 resumed	nsubj
19	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Uncle	flat
20	resumed	resume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	parataxis
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 resumed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	the little boy	no other premature questions		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the little boy not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	resume	past	Uncle		after a pause	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/37/9/