Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 1

"UNCLE REMUS," said the little boy, "what became of the Rabbit after he fooled the Buzzard, and got out of the hollow tree?"

Who acts: UNCLE REMUS, boy · What happens: say, become, fool, get out · To what, where: Buzzard, hollow tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UNCLE REMUS, 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	_	3 REMUS	punct
2	UNCLE	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 REMUS	compound
3	REMUS	REMUS	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 REMUS	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 REMUS	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 became	nsubj
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Rabbit	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Rabbit	det
16	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 became	obl
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 fooled	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fooled	nsubj
19	fooled	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 became	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Buzzard	det
21	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 fooled	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 got	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 got	cc
24	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
25	out	out	ADP	_	29 tree	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 tree	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tree	det
28	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tree	amod
29	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 got	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 got	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	UNCLE REMUS			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	become in a quote	past			of the Rabbit	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	fool in a quote	past	boy	the Buzzard		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buzzard=Patient
4	get out in a quote	past		the hollow tree		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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