Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 6
"On the roof of his house, Uncle Remus?" interrupted the little boy.
Who acts: roof · What happens: interrupt · To what, where: little boy
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 (roof), 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 | _ | 4 roof | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 roof | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 roof | det |
| 4 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 interrupted | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roof | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Remus | punct |
| 9 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Remus | compound |
| 10 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 roof | appos |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 Remus | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Remus | punct |
| 13 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boy | amod |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 interrupted | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 interrupted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interrupt | past | the roof of roof's house | the little boy | 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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