Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 17
"The rabbit rode the fox to Miss Meadows's, and hitched him to the horse-rack," said the little boy.
Who acts: rabbit, little boy · What happens: ride, hitch, say · To what, where: fox, Miss Meadows · 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 (rabbit, 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 | _ | 4 rode | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rabbit | det |
| 3 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fox | det |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Meadows | case |
| 8 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Meadows | compound |
| 9 | Meadows | Meadows | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Meadows | case |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hitched | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hitched | cc |
| 13 | hitched | hitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hitched | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 rack | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rack | det |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rack | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 horse | punct |
| 19 | rack | rack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hitched | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 boy | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 boy | amod |
| 25 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride in a quote | past | the rabbit | the fox | Miss Meadows | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fox=Theme to meadows=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | hitch in a quote | past | the rabbit not said here | Fox | to the horse rack | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to rack=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the little boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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