Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 43
W'en Brer Rabbit got close ter Brer Fox house, all look lonesome.
Who acts: W'en · What happens: get, look · To what, where: lonesome
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 (W'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 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W'en | flat |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 W'en | flat |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fox | compound |
| 8 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 house | compound |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 close | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 look | advmod |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 13 | lonesome | lonesome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | W'en | close property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | look | present | W'en not said here | lonesome | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lonesome=Attribute |
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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