Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 26
"What was he doing that for, Uncle Remus?" the little boy inquired.
Who acts: amble · What happens: do, inquire · To what, where: Uncle Remus, little boy · 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 (amble), 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 | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 doing | obj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 doing | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 doing | nsubj |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 doing | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 that | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 9 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Remus | compound |
| 10 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 doing | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 boy | amod |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doing | obj |
| 16 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 boy | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past · progressive | amble | Uncle Remus | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | participle | the little boy not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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