Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 7

And so I feel my heart fluttering and my lips trembling, and I have to how silently and him away, and hurry back into the obscurity that fits me best.

Who acts: I, lips, obscurity · What happens: feel, flutter, tremble, have, hurry back, fit · To what, where: heart, obscurity, me

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 (I, lips, obscurity), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 feel	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 feel	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 feel	nsubj
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heart	nmod:poss
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	obj
7	fluttering	flutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 feel	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 trembling	cc
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 lips	nmod:poss
10	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 trembling	nsubj
11	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 fluttering	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	15 have	xcomp
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 silently	advmod
18	silently	silently	ADV	_	15 have	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 him	cc
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 have	conj
21	away	away	ADV	_	15 have	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hurry	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hurry	cc
24	hurry	hurry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	parataxis
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 hurry	advmod
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 obscurity	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 obscurity	det
28	obscurity	obscurity	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hurry	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 fits	nsubj
30	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 obscurity	acl:relcl
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 fits	obj
32	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	30 fits	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	infinitive	I	my heart			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme
2	flutter	gerund	I not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tremble	gerund	my lips				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	I			away, silently property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	hurry back	infinitive			the obscurity		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into obscurity=Destination
6	fit	present	the obscurity	me		well property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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