The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 110

For as the wolverine was older than the mouse, he was accustomed to speak to her in this manner.

Who acts: wolverine · What happens: be, accustom, speak · To what, where: Wolverine, frog, manner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolverine), 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	For	for	ADP	_	6 older	case
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 older	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolverine	det
4	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 older	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 older	cop
6	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 mouse	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mouse	det
9	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 older	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 accustomed	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 accustomed	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 accustomed	aux:pass
13	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 older	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 speak	mark
15	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 accustomed	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 speak	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 manner	case
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 manner	det
20	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 speak	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 older	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wolverine				than the mouse; old property	tree rules
2	accustom	past · passive		Wolverine				tree rules
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive			frog	this manner		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent

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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