Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 29
"In jump Brer Wolf, down come the led, en inter de hasp went de hook, en dar Mr. Wolf wuz.
Who acts: you, de hasp · What happens: come, go · To what, where: led, jump, de hook
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 (you, de hasp), 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 | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 jump | case |
| 3 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 4 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 jump | appos |
| 5 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Brer | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 jump | punct |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 led | det |
| 10 | led | led | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 inter | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 inter | compound |
| 13 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | appos |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 hasp | compound |
| 15 | hasp | hasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 inter | acl:relcl |
| 17 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hook | amod |
| 18 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dar | punct |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dar | compound |
| 21 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hook | conj |
| 22 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Wolf | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 wuz | compound |
| 24 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dar | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the led | jump | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location led=Theme | ||
| 2 | go in a quote | past | de hasp | de hook and en dar and Wolf wuz | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hook=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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