Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 46
One of the most characteristic of Uncle Remus's stories is that in which the rabbit proves to Miss Meadows and the girls that the fox is his riding-horse.
Who acts: rabbit, fox · What happens: be, miss · To what, where: characteristic, Meadows, riding horse
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 (rabbit, fox), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 characteristic | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 characteristic | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 characteristic | advmod |
| 5 | characteristic | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 One | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 stories | case |
| 7 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Remus | compound |
| 8 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stories | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Remus | case |
| 10 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 characteristic | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 proves | cop |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 proves | mark |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 proves | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rabbit | det |
| 16 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 proves | nsubj |
| 17 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 characteristic | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 Miss | mark |
| 19 | Miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 proves | xcomp |
| 20 | Meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Miss | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 girls | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 girls | det |
| 23 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Meadows | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 horse | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fox | det |
| 26 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 horse | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 horse | cop |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 horse | nmod:poss |
| 29 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 horse | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 riding | punct |
| 31 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Meadows | acl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the rabbit | the characteristic of Uncle Remus's stories | prove property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | miss | to-infinitive | the rabbit not said here | Meadows and the girls | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meadow=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the fox | fox's riding horse | 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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