Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 57

The seance was over; but, before the little boy went into the "big house," Uncle Remus laid his rough hand tenderly on the child's shoulder, and remarked, in a confidential tone:

Who acts: seance, Uncle · What happens: be, go, lay, remark · To what, where: big house, rough hand, shoulder, confidential tone

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 (seance, Uncle), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 seance	det
2	seance	seance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 over	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 over	cop
4	over	over	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 but	punct
8	before	before	ADP	_	11 boy	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	into	into	ADP	_	17 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 house	det
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 house	punct
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 house	amod
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 laid	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 laid	punct
20	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 laid	nsubj
21	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Uncle	flat
22	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hand	nmod:poss
24	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hand	amod
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laid	obj
26	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 laid	xcomp
27	on	on	ADP	_	31 shoulder	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 child	det
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 shoulder	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 child	case
31	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laid	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 remarked	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 remarked	cc
34	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 went	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 tone	punct
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 tone	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 tone	det
38	confidential	confidential	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 tone	amod
39	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 remarked	obl
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the seance				over property	tree rules
2	go	past			the big house	before the little boy		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
3	lay	past	Uncle	Uncle's rough hand	the child's shoulder		tenderly property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on shoulder=Destination
4	remark speech: assert	participle			a confidential tone			vn lecture-37.11-1 «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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