Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 12
"Seein' um's better'n hearin' tell un um, replied the old man, the severity of his countenance relaxing somewhat; but the little boy darted out, and in a few minutes came running back with his pockets full and his hands full.
Who acts: countenance, little boy · What happens: tell, reply, relax, dart out, come, run back · To what, where: better'n hearin, old man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (countenance, little boy), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hearin | punct |
| 2 | Seein | Seein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 um | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 Seein | case |
| 4 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hearin | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 um | case |
| 6 | better'n | better'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hearin | compound |
| 7 | hearin | hearin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obl |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 hearin | punct |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 um | compound |
| 11 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 severity | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 severity | det |
| 19 | severity | severity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 countenance | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 22 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 severity | nmod |
| 23 | relaxing | relax | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 countenance | acl |
| 24 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 23 relaxing | advmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 darted | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 darted | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 boy | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 boy | amod |
| 29 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 darted | nsubj |
| 30 | darted | dart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 replied | conj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 darted | compound:prt |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 came | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 came | cc |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 minutes | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 minutes | det |
| 36 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 minutes | amod |
| 37 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 came | obl |
| 38 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 replied | conj |
| 39 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 came | advcl |
| 40 | back | back | ADV | _ | 39 running | advmod |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 pockets | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 43 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 running | obl | |
| 44 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 pockets | amod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 full | cc |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 hands | nmod:poss |
| 47 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 full | nsubj |
| 48 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 full | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | Seein's um's better'n hearin | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent um=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||||
| 3 | relax in a quote | gerund | man's countenance not said here | somewhat property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | dart out in a quote | participle | the little boy | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | past | minute | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | run back in a quote | gerund | with boy's pockets | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with pocket=Material |
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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