The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 81

And his grandmother asked him no more questions, for she saw that he was wiser than she.

Who acts: grandmother, Hare · What happens: ask, see, be · To what, where: more questions, Hare

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, Hare), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 asked	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 grandmother	nmod:poss
3	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	iobj
6	no	no	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 questions	amod
8	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 saw	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 wiser	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wiser	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wiser	cop
16	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 saw	xcomp
17	than	than	ADP	_	18 she	case
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wiser	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Hare's grandmother	more questions	Hare		tree rules
2	see	past	grandmother				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	Hare			than grandmother; wise property	tree rules

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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