Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 49

"But what became of the Rabbit, Uncle Remus?" asked the little boy.

Who acts: little boy · What happens: become, ask · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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 became	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 became	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Rabbit	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rabbit	det
7	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Remus	punct
9	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Remus	compound
10	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Rabbit	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 Remus	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Remus	punct
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boy	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	nsubj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become in a quote	past						of the Rabbit	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	the little boy						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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