Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 31
De big uns had big pails, en de little uns had little pails.
Who acts: De big uns, big pails · What happens: have · To what, where: little pails
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 (De big uns, big pails), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 uns | compound |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 uns | amod |
| 3 | uns | un | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pails | amod |
| 6 | pails | pail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 en | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pails | conj |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 pails | conj |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 uns | amod |
| 11 | uns | un | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | ccomp |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pails | amod |
| 14 | pails | pail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | De big uns | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | big pails and en | little pails | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pail=Patient |
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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