Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 10
True, my dear Frost; but if you could see the thousands of letters that have come to me from far and near, and all fresh from the hearts and hands of children, and from men and women who have not forgotten how to be children, you would not wonder at the dream.
Who acts: you, letters, men, children · What happens: see, come, not forget, be, not wonder · To what, where: thousands, me, children, dream
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, letters, men, children), 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 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Frost | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Frost | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Frost | amod |
| 5 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 True | conj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 see | cc |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 True | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thousands | det |
| 13 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 letters | case |
| 15 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 thousands | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 letters | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 come | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 far | case |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 come | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 near | cc |
| 24 | near | near | ADV | _ | 22 far | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fresh | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fresh | cc |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 fresh | det |
| 28 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 see | parataxis |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 hearts | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hearts | det |
| 31 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fresh | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 hands | cc |
| 33 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 hearts | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 children | case |
| 35 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 hands | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 men | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 men | cc |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 men | case |
| 39 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fresh | parataxis |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 women | cc |
| 41 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 men | conj |
| 42 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 forgotten | nsubj |
| 43 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 forgotten | aux |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 forgotten | advmod |
| 45 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 men | acl:relcl |
| 46 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 54 wonder | advmod |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 children | mark |
| 48 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 49 children | cop |
| 49 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 wonder | nsubj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 wonder | punct |
| 51 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 54 wonder | nsubj |
| 52 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 54 wonder | aux |
| 53 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 54 wonder | advmod |
| 54 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 forgotten | advcl |
| 55 | at | at | ADP | _ | 57 dream | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 dream | det |
| 57 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 wonder | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 True | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | you | the thousands of letters | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thousand=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | present · perfect | letters | me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location from far=Destination | ||||
| 3 | not forget | present · perfect | men and women | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | children | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not wonder speech: ask | would | children | the dream | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
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