Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 53
Den Brer Rabbit, he come up little closer, but he ain't gittin' too close.
Who acts: Den · What happens: come up
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 (Den), 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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Den | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 closer | advmod |
| 9 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 come | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ai | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 ai | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ai | nsubj |
| 13 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | conj |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 gittin | advmod |
| 15 | gittin | gittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ai | obl |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 gittin | punct |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 close | advmod |
| 18 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ai | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | present | Den | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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