Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 50
Thereupon the story proceeds pretty much as Uncle Remus tells it of the fox and rabbit.
Who acts: story, Uncle Remus · What happens: proceed, tell · To what, where: cotia · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Uncle Remus), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 4 proceeds | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proceeds | nsubj |
| 4 | proceeds | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 proceeds | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 tells | mark |
| 8 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Remus | compound |
| 9 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tells | nsubj |
| 10 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 proceeds | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tells | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 fox | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fox | det |
| 14 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tells | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rabbit | cc |
| 16 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fox | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proceeds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | present | the story | thereupon property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | Uncle Remus | cotia | of the fox and rabbit | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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: «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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