Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 1

"MISS SALLY'S" little boy again occupying the anxious position of auditor, Uncle Remus took the shovel and "put de noses er de chunks tergedder," as he expressed it, and then began:

Who acts: little boy, Uncle · What happens: occupy, take, put, express, begin · To what, where: anxious position, shovel, de noses, tergedder

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. 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, Uncle), 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	_	9 occupying	punct
2	MISS	MISS	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 SALLY	compound
3	SALLY	SALLY	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 boy	nmod:poss
4	'S	's	PART	_	3 SALLY	case
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 occupying	nsubj
8	again	again	ADV	_	9 occupying	advmod
9	occupying	occupy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 took	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 position	det
11	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 position	amod
12	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 occupying	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 auditor	case
14	auditor	auditor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 position	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 occupying	punct
16	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 took	nsubj
17	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Uncle	flat
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shovel	det
20	shovel	shovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 put	cc
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct
23	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 took	conj
24	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 noses	compound
25	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 put	obj
26	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 de	advmod
27	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tergedder	amod
28	chunks	chunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tergedder	compound
29	tergedder	tergedder	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 expressed	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 expressed	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 expressed	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 expressed	nsubj
34	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 expressed	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 began	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 began	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 began	advmod
39	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	parataxis
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	occupy	gerund	MISS SALLY's little boy	the anxious position of auditor	again	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus position=Experiencer
2	take	past	Uncle	the shovel		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent shovel=Theme clause=Attribute
3	put in a quote	infinitive	Uncle not said here	de noses		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent nose=Asset tergedder=Goal
4	express	past	Uncle	tergedder		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	begin	past			then	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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