The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 59
But as he was a little afraid of his wife, who knew so much more than he, he asked no questions.
Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: be, know, ask · To what, where: more, questions
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, wife), 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 | _ | 21 asked | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 afraid | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 afraid | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 afraid | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 afraid | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 asked | advcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wife | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 afraid | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knew | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wife | acl:relcl |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 knew | obj |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 he | case |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 more | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 afraid | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 asked | nsubj |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 questions | det |
| 23 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 asked | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | husband | of husband's wife; a little obl:unmarked; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | husband's wife | more | than husband | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | husband | no questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
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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