Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 2

"Well, I saw the pie lying there, Uncle Remus, and I just thought I'd fetch it out to you."

Who acts: I, pie · What happens: see, lie, think, fetch out · To what, where: pie, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pie), 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	_	5 saw	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 saw	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pie	det
7	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
8	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 pie	acl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 lying	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Remus	punct
11	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Remus	compound
12	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pie	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thought	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 thought	advmod
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	advcl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 fetch	nsubj
19	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 fetch	aux
20	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 thought	ccomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fetch	obj
22	out	out	ADP	_	20 fetch	compound:prt
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 fetch	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	see in a quote	past	I	the pie Uncle Remus			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pie=Stimulus
2	lie in a quote	gerund	the pie Uncle Remus not said here			there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other in a quote	past	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	fetch out in a quote	would	I	pie	you		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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