Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 34
W'at you fool me fer?' sezee.
Who acts: W'at · What happens: fool · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W'at), 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 | W'at | W'at | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fool | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 fool | nsubj |
| 3 | fool | fool | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fool | obj |
| 5 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 fool | xcomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fool | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fool | punct |
| 8 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fool | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fool | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fool | infinitive | W'at | me | f property | 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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