Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 40

Then there is the story of how the tortoise pretended that he was stronger than the tapir.

Who acts: story, tortoise · What happens: be, pretend

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 (story, tortoise), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 is	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 pretended	mark
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 pretended	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tortoise	det
9	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pretended	nsubj
10	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 story	acl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 stronger	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stronger	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stronger	cop
14	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 pretended	xcomp
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 tapir	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tapir	det
17	tapir	tapir	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stronger	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	the story	there	then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pretend	past	the tortoise				tree rules
3	is	past	tortoise			than the tapir; strong 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: «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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