Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 38

"'Seem like I hear one un um smellin' roun' de chimbly-cornder des now.'

Who acts: you, Tobacco · What happens: seem, hear · To what, where: one um smellin

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, Tobacco), 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	_	3 Seem	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Seem	punct
3	Seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 hear	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
6	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Seem	advcl
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 smellin	nummod
8	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 um	compound
9	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 smellin	compound
10	smellin	smellin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obj
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 roun	punct
12	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 smellin	appos
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 roun	punct
14	de	de	ADP	_	18 des	case
15	chimbly	chimbly	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cornder	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 chimbly	punct
17	cornder	cornder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 des	compound
18	des	des	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obl
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 hear	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Seem	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem in a quote	imperative	you not said here						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	hear in a quote	present	Tobacco	one um smellin			now	de cornder des	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer smellin=Stimulus

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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