Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 1
WHEN "Miss Sally's" little boy went to Uncle Remus the next night to hear the conclusion of the adventure in which the Rabbit made a riding-horse of the Fox to the great enjoyment and gratification of Miss Meadows and the girls, he found the old man in a bad humor.
Who acts: little boy, Rabbit · What happens: go, hear, make, find, conclude, gratify · To what, where: Uncle Remus, conclusion, riding horse, adventure, old man, bad humor
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, Rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WHEN | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 went | advmod |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 3 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sally | compound |
| 4 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 boy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Sally | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 boy | punct |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boy | amod |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 found | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Remus | case |
| 11 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Remus | compound |
| 12 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 night | amod |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 hear | mark |
| 17 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 conclusion | det |
| 19 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hear | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 adventure | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 adventure | det |
| 22 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 conclusion | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 made | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Rabbit | det |
| 26 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | nsubj |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 adventure | acl:relcl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 horse | det |
| 29 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 horse | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 riding | punct |
| 31 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Fox | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Fox | det |
| 34 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 horse | nmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 enjoyment | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 enjoyment | det |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 enjoyment | amod |
| 38 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 gratification | cc |
| 40 | gratification | gratification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 enjoyment | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Meadows | case |
| 42 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Meadows | compound |
| 43 | Meadows | Meadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 40 gratification | nmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 girls | cc |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 girls | det |
| 46 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 enjoyment | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 found | nsubj |
| 49 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 man | det |
| 51 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 man | amod |
| 52 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 found | obj |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 56 humor | case |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 humor | det |
| 55 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 humor | amod |
| 56 | humor | humor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 man | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 49 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Miss Sally's little boy | Uncle Remus | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to remus=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | Miss Sally's little boy not said here | the conclusion of the adventure | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer conclusion=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the Rabbit | a riding horse of the Fox | the adventure | to the great enjoyment and gratification of Miss Meadows and the girls | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Product | ||
| 4 | find | past | Rabbit | the old man | a bad humor | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||
| 5 | conclude | the adventure | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | gratify | Miss Meadows | nom gratification «state transitive»: of=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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