Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 29
"'Fr'en',' sez Brer Wolf.
Who acts: Fr'en · What happens: say · To what, where: Brer Wolf · 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 (Fr'en), 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 Fr'en | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fr'en | punct |
| 3 | Fr'en | Fr'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sez | nsubj |
| 4 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fr'en | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fr'en | punct |
| 6 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Wolf | compound |
| 8 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sez | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Fr'en | Brer Wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic |
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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