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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

punctpunctdiscoursepunctdiscoursepunctnmod:posscaseamodnsubjpunctcompoundconjpunctpunctobjflatpunctappospunctcompoundcompoundoblnsubjconjnmod:posscompoundobjcaseamodoblpunctconjadvmodadvmodauxnsubjadvcldetcompoundcompoundnsubjparataxisobjpunctcompoundoblcompound:prtpunctroot"PUNCT'PUNCTOhINTJ,PUNCTnoINTJ,PUNCTdarNOUN'sPARTdeADJtailNOUN,PUNCTBrerPROPNFoxNOUN,PUNCT'PUNCTsezVERBBrerPROPNTarrypinPROPN,PUNCTsezeeNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNwidNOUNdatNOUNhePRONoncurlVERBhisPRONtailNOUNfumNOUNunderADPdeADJshellNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNnoADVsoonerADVdidAUXhePRONdoVERBdatDETdanNOUNBrerPROPNFoxNOUNgrabVERBitPRON,PUNCTenNOUNhollerNOUNoutADP:PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_16 sezpunct
2''PUNCT_10 tailpunct
3OhohINTJ_10 taildiscourse
4,,PUNCT_3 Ohpunct
5nonoINTJPolarity=Neg10 taildiscourse
6,,PUNCT_10 tailpunct
7dardarNOUNNumber=Sing10 tailnmod:poss
8's'sPART_7 darcase
9dedeADJDegree=Pos10 tailamod
10tailtailNOUNNumber=Sing16 seznsubj
11,,PUNCT_13 Foxpunct
12BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing13 Foxcompound
13FoxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing10 tailconj
14,,PUNCT_10 tailpunct
15''PUNCT_10 tailpunct
16sezsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
17BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing16 sezobj
18TarrypinTarrypinPROPNNumber=Sing17 Brerflat
19,,PUNCT_20 sezeepunct
20sezeesezeeNOUNNumber=Sing17 Brerappos
21,,PUNCT_24 datpunct
22enenNOUNNumber=Sing23 widcompound
23widwidNOUNNumber=Sing24 datcompound
24datdatNOUNNumber=Sing26 oncurlobl
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 oncurlnsubj
26oncurloncurlVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin16 sezconj
27hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 fumnmod:poss
28tailtailNOUNNumber=Sing29 fumcompound
29fumfumNOUNNumber=Sing26 oncurlobj
30underunderADP_32 shellcase
31dedeADJDegree=Pos32 shellamod
32shellshellNOUNNumber=Sing26 oncurlobl
33,,PUNCT_34 enpunct
34enenNOUNNumber=Sing32 shellconj
35nonoADV_36 sooneradvmod
36soonersoonADVDegree=Cmp39 doadvmod
37diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin39 doaux
38hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs39 donsubj
39dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf26 oncurladvcl
40datthatDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art43 Foxdet
41dandanNOUNNumber=Sing43 Foxcompound
42BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing43 Foxcompound
43FoxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing44 grabnsubj
44grabgrabVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin39 doparataxis
45ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs44 grabobj
46,,PUNCT_48 hollerpunct
47enenNOUNNumber=Sing48 hollercompound
48hollerhollerNOUNNumber=Sing39 doobl
49outoutADP_39 docompound:prt
50::PUNCT_16 sezpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assert in a quotepresentdar's de tail and Brer FoxBrervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic
2oncurl in a quotepresenttailwid datde shell and entree rules
3do out in a quotepast · do-supporttailen hollersoon propertyvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4grab in a quotepresentthat dan Brer Foxfumvn 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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