Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 30

Den Brer Rabbit went ter de lookin'- glass, he did, en wink at hisse'f, en den he draw'd de rockin'- cheer in front er de fier, he did, en tuck a big chaw terbacker."

Who acts: Den · What happens: go, draw, de, rockin, do · To what, where: lookin glass, hisse'f, cheer, en tuck

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 (Den), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ter	ter	X	_	7 lookin	compound
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	5 ter	flat:foreign
7	lookin	lookin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 glass	compound
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 lookin	punct
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 glass	punct
10	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 did	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 de	aux
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wink	punct
15	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wink	compound
16	wink	wink	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 did	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 hisse'f	case
18	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 did	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 den	punct
20	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 den	compound
21	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hisse'f	conj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 draw	nsubj
23	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 hisse'f	acl:relcl
24	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 de	aux
25	de	de	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	conj
26	rockin	rockin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 de	xcomp
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 rockin	punct
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 cheer	punct
29	cheer	cheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rockin	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 er	case
31	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 er	compound
32	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cheer	nmod
33	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	34 fier	compound
34	fier	fier	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 er	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 did	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 did	nsubj
37	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 tuck	punct
39	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tuck	compound
40	tuck	tuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 did	obj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 terbacker	det
42	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 terbacker	amod
43	chaw	chaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 terbacker	compound
44	terbacker	terbacker	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 did	obl:unmarked
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	Den	lookin glass		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location glass=Theme
2	draw	infinitive	den	hisse'f and en den not said here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hisse'f=Theme
3	de	would · past · do-support	Den not said here			tree rules
4	rockin	gerund	Den not said here	cheer in front er and de fier		tree rules
5	do	past	den	en tuck	a big chaw terbacker obl:unmarked	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tuck=Eventuality

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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