Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 3
"Tooby sho, honey," replied the old man, regarding the child with admiration. "
Who acts: Tooby sho · What happens: reply, regard · To what, where: old man
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 (Tooby sho), 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 sho | punct |
| 2 | Tooby | Tooby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sho | compound |
| 3 | sho | sho | NOUN | _ | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 honey | punct |
| 5 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sho | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sho | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sho | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 regarding | punct |
| 13 | regarding | regard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 child | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 admiration | case |
| 17 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 child | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 child | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 child | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Tooby sho and honey | the old man | regard the child with admiration | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||
| 2 | regard | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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