Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 56

At this point Uncle Remus took one of the teacakes, held his head back, opened his mouth, dropped the cake in with a sudden motion, looked at the little boy with an expression of astonishment, and then closed his eyes, and begun to chew, mumbling as an accompaniment the plaintive tune of "Don't you Grieve atter Me."

Who acts: Uncle, you · What happens: take, hold back, open, drop in, look, close · To what, where: one, point, head, mouth, cake, eyes · 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 (Uncle, you), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 point	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 point	det
3	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
4	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Uncle	flat
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 took	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 teacakes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 teacakes	det
10	teacakes	teacake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 held	punct
12	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 held	obj
15	back	back	ADV	_	12 held	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 opened	punct
17	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mouth	nmod:poss
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 opened	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dropped	punct
21	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cake	det
23	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dropped	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	21 dropped	compound:prt
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 motion	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 motion	det
27	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 motion	amod
28	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dropped	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 looked	punct
30	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
31	at	at	ADP	_	34 boy	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 boy	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 boy	amod
34	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 looked	obl
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 expression	case
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 expression	det
37	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 boy	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 astonishment	case
39	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 expression	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 closed	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 closed	cc
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 closed	advmod
43	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	parataxis
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 eyes	nmod:poss
45	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 closed	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 begun	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 begun	cc
48	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 took	parataxis
49	to	to	PART	_	50 chew	mark
50	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 begun	xcomp
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 mumbling	punct
52	mumbling	mumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 chew	advcl
53	as	as	ADP	_	55 accompaniment	case
54	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 accompaniment	det
55	accompaniment	accompaniment	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 mumbling	obl
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 tune	det
57	plaintive	plaintive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 tune	amod
58	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 mumbling	obj
59	of	of	SCONJ	_	64 Grieve	mark
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	64 Grieve	punct
61	Do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	64 Grieve	aux
62	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	64 Grieve	advmod
63	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	64 Grieve	nsubj
64	Grieve	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 tune	acl
65	atter	atter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 Grieve	xcomp
66	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	65 atter	obj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct
68	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Uncle	one of the teacakes	this point			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent one=Theme at point=Asset
2	hold back	past	Uncle not said here	Uncle's head				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	open	past	Uncle not said here	Uncle's mouth				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
4	drop in	past	Uncle not said here	the cake			with a sudden motion	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme
5	look	past	Uncle not said here				at the little boy with a expression of astonishment	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at boy=Theme
6	close	past		Uncle's eyes		then		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
7	begin	participle						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	chew	to-infinitive						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	mumble speech: other	gerund		the plaintive tune			as a accompaniment	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Topic
10	not grieve in a quote	infinitive · do-support	you	the plaintive tune not said here				tree rules
11	atter in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	Me				tree rules

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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