Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 5
"'You don't look sprucy like you did, Brer Tarrypin,' sez Brer Fox, sezee.
Who acts: You · What happens: not look, do, say · To what, where: Brer Fox · 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 (You), 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 | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 3 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 look | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 look | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 look | advmod |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sez | nsubj |
| 7 | sprucy | sprucy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 look | xcomp |
| 8 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 did | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sprucy | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Brer | punct |
| 12 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 look | parataxis |
| 13 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Brer | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 16 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Fox | compound |
| 18 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sez | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sezee | punct |
| 20 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Fox | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look in a quote | present · do-support | You | sprucy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Brer Fox and sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |
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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