Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 21
"'Oh, no, dar's de tail, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, en wid dat he oncurl his tail fum under de shell, en no sooner did he do dat dan Brer Fox grab it, en holler out:
Who acts: de tail, tail, dan Brer Fox · What happens: say, oncurl, do out, grab · To what, where: Brer, wid dat, de shell, en holler, fum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (de tail, tail, dan Brer Fox), 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 | _ | 16 sez | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 tail | punct |
| 3 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 10 tail | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Oh | punct |
| 5 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 tail | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tail | punct |
| 7 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tail | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 dar | case |
| 9 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tail | amod |
| 10 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sez | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Fox | punct |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Fox | compound |
| 13 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tail | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tail | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 tail | punct |
| 16 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sez | obj |
| 18 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Brer | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sezee | punct |
| 20 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Brer | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dat | punct |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wid | compound |
| 23 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dat | compound |
| 24 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 oncurl | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 oncurl | nsubj |
| 26 | oncurl | oncurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 16 sez | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 fum | nmod:poss |
| 28 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fum | compound |
| 29 | fum | fum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 oncurl | obj |
| 30 | under | under | ADP | _ | 32 shell | case |
| 31 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 shell | amod |
| 32 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 oncurl | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 en | punct |
| 34 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shell | conj |
| 35 | no | no | ADV | _ | 36 sooner | advmod |
| 36 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 do | advmod |
| 37 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 do | aux |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 do | nsubj |
| 39 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 oncurl | advcl |
| 40 | dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Fox | det |
| 41 | dan | dan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 Fox | compound |
| 42 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Fox | compound |
| 43 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 grab | nsubj |
| 44 | grab | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 do | parataxis |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 grab | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 holler | punct |
| 47 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 holler | compound |
| 48 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 do | obl |
| 49 | out | out | ADP | _ | 39 do | compound:prt |
| 50 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | dar's de tail and Brer Fox | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | ||||
| 2 | oncurl in a quote | present | tail | wid dat | de shell and en | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do out in a quote | past · do-support | tail | en holler | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | grab in a quote | present | that dan Brer Fox | fum | vn steal-10.5-1 «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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