Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 42
"Miss Cow, she stood dar, she did, en she study en study, en strive fer ter break loose, but de horn done bin jam in de tree so tight dat twuz way 'fo day in de mornin' 'fo' she loose it.
Who acts: Cow, Miss Cow, fer ter, horn · What happens: stand, do, study, strive, break, loose · To what, where: dar, en study, bin jam, de, jam · 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 (Cow, Miss Cow, fer ter, horn), 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 Cow | punct |
| 2 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Cow | compound |
| 3 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 study | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Cow | acl:relcl |
| 7 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Cow | conj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 study | nsubj |
| 14 | study | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 study | compound |
| 16 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 study | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 en | punct |
| 18 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 study | conj |
| 19 | strive | strive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 study | conj |
| 20 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ter | compound |
| 21 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 break | nsubj |
| 22 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 strive | ccomp |
| 23 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 break | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 tree | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 tree | cc |
| 26 | de | de | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 horn | det |
| 27 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tree | compound |
| 28 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 horn | acl |
| 29 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 jam | compound |
| 30 | jam | jam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 done | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 de | case |
| 32 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 done | obl |
| 33 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 study | obl |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 tight | advmod |
| 35 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 dat | amod |
| 36 | dat | dat | X | ExtPos=PROPN | 33 tree | appos |
| 37 | twuz | twuz | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 way | amod |
| 38 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 dat | flat |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 dat | punct |
| 40 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 41 day | case |
| 41 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 dat | nmod |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 mornin | case |
| 43 | de | de | PUNCT | _ | 44 mornin | punct |
| 44 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 dat | nmod |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 dat | punct |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 dat | punct |
| 47 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 50 loose | mark |
| 48 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 loose | punct |
| 49 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 loose | nsubj |
| 50 | loose | loose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 dat | advcl |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 loose | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 study | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | past | Cow | dar | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dar=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | Cow | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | study in a quote | present | Miss Cow and en | en study and en | horn tree obl | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent study=Topic | |||
| 4 | strive in a quote | infinitive | Miss Cow and en not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | break in a quote | present | fer ter | loose property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | participle | de horn not said here | bin jam | de | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jam=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | loose in a quote | past | Cow | jam | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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