Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 7
Here the old man paused, and proceeded to demolish the pie--a feat accomplished in a very short time.
Who acts: old man · What happens: pause, proceed, demolish, accomplish · To what, where: pie, feat
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 (old man), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 paused | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paused | nsubj |
| 5 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 proceeded | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 proceeded | cc |
| 8 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 paused | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 demolish | mark |
| 10 | demolish | demolish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 proceeded | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pie | det |
| 12 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 demolish | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 feat | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 feat | det |
| 15 | feat | feat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pie | appos |
| 16 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 feat | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 short | advmod |
| 20 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 accomplished | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | the old man | here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | proceed | past | the old man not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | demolish | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | the pie | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pie=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | accomplish | participle | a feat not said here | time | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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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