Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 1
UNCLE REMUS was half-soling one of his shoes, and his Miss Sally's little boy had been handling his awls, his hammers, and his knives to such an extent that the old man was compelled to assume a threatening attitude; but peace reigned again, and the little boy perched himself on a chair, watching Uncle Remus driving in pegs.
Who acts: UNCLE, little boy, peace, Uncle Remus · What happens: be, handle, such, compel, assume, threaten · To what, where: awls, extent, old man, threatening attitude, boy, chair
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UNCLE, little boy, peace, Uncle Remus), 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 | UNCLE | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soling | nsubj |
| 2 | REMUS | REMUS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 UNCLE | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 soling | cop |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 soling | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 half | punct |
| 6 | soling | sole | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 soling | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 shoes | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 handling | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 handling | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Sally | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sally | compound |
| 15 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 boy | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Sally | case |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boy | amod |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 handling | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 handling | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 handling | aux |
| 21 | handling | handle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 soling | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 awls | nmod:poss |
| 23 | awls | awl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 handling | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hammers | punct |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hammers | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hammers | hammer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 awls | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 knives | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 knives | cc |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 knives | nmod:poss |
| 30 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 soling | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 such | mark |
| 32 | such | such | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 knives | acl |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 extent | det |
| 34 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 such | obj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 compelled | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 man | det |
| 37 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 man | amod |
| 38 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 compelled | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 compelled | aux:pass |
| 40 | compelled | compel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 extent | acl:relcl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 assume | mark |
| 42 | assume | assume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 compelled | xcomp |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 attitude | det |
| 44 | threatening | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 45 attitude | amod |
| 45 | attitude | attitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 assume | obj |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 reigned | punct |
| 47 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 reigned | cc |
| 48 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 reigned | nsubj |
| 49 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 soling | parataxis |
| 50 | again | again | ADV | _ | 49 reigned | advmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 perched | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 perched | cc |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 boy | det |
| 54 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 boy | amod |
| 55 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 perched | nsubj |
| 56 | perched | perch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 reigned | parataxis |
| 57 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 56 perched | obj |
| 58 | on | on | ADP | _ | 60 chair | case |
| 59 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 60 chair | det |
| 60 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 perched | obl |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 watching | punct |
| 62 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 56 perched | advcl |
| 63 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 64 Remus | compound |
| 64 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 62 watching | obj |
| 65 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 62 watching | xcomp |
| 66 | in | in | ADP | _ | 67 pegs | case |
| 67 | pegs | peg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 65 driving | obl |
| 68 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 soling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | UNCLE | boy's knives obl; sole property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | handle | past · perfect · progressive | his Miss Sally's little boy | boy's awls and boy's hammers | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent awl=Theme | ||||
| 3 | such | to-infinitive | UNCLE not said here | a extent | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | compel | past · passive | the old man | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 5 | assume | to-infinitive | a threatening attitude | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attitude=Theme | |||||
| 6 | threaten | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | reign | participle | peace | again | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | perch | past | the little boy | boy | a chair | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on chair=Destination | |||
| 9 | watch | gerund | the little boy not said here | Uncle Remus | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | drive | gerund | Uncle Remus not said here | pegs | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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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