Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 19
"Bimeby, one day w'en Brer Rabbit wuz fixin' fer ter call on Miss Coon, he heerd a monstrus fuss en clatter up de big road, en 'mos' 'fo' he could fix his years fer ter lissen, Brer Wolf run in de do'.
Who acts: fer ter, Rabbit, Brer Wolf · What happens: call, heer, clatter up, fix, run, do · To what, where: wuz fixin, fuss en, big road, fer ter lissen, de · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fer ter, Rabbit, Brer Wolf), 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 | _ | 2 Bimeby | punct |
| 2 | Bimeby | Bimeby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fixin | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bimeby | appos |
| 6 | w'en | w'en | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | flat |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Rabbit | compound |
| 8 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bimeby | conj |
| 9 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fixin | compound |
| 10 | fixin | fixin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 fixin | punct |
| 12 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 ter | amod |
| 13 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 call | nsubj |
| 14 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fixin | acl:relcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Miss | case |
| 16 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 call | obl |
| 17 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Miss | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heerd | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 heerd | nsubj |
| 20 | heerd | heer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 clatter | nsubj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 en | det |
| 22 | monstrus | monstrus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fuss | compound |
| 23 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 en | compound |
| 24 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heerd | obj |
| 25 | clatter | clatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fixin | acl:relcl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 clatter | compound:prt |
| 27 | de | de | ADV | _ | 28 big | advmod |
| 28 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 road | amod |
| 29 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 clatter | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 mos | punct |
| 31 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 mos | compound |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 mos | punct |
| 33 | mos | mos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 road | appos |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 mos | punct |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 mos | punct |
| 36 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 40 fix | mark |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 fix | punct |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 fix | nsubj |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 fix | aux |
| 40 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 clatter | advcl |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 years | nmod:poss |
| 42 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 fix | obj |
| 43 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 45 lissen | amod |
| 44 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 lissen | compound |
| 45 | lissen | lissen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fix | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 Wolf | punct |
| 47 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Wolf | compound |
| 48 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 run | nsubj |
| 49 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fixin | parataxis |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 de | case |
| 51 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 run | obl |
| 52 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 run | conj |
| 53 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 52 do | punct |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fixin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | present | fer ter | wuz fixin not said here | on Miss | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fixin=Recipient | |||
| 2 | heer in a quote | past | Rabbit | a fuss en | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | clatter up in a quote | present | big road | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fix in a quote | could | Rabbit | fer ter lissen | year | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent lissen=Patient | |||
| 5 | run in a quote | present | Brer Wolf | de | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in de=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | present | Brer Wolf not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP 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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