Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 39

"Den Brer Rabbit git de kittle en fill it full er water, en put it on de fier.

Who acts: Den kittle en, en · What happens: fill, put · To what, where: smellin, de fier

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 kittle en, en), 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 Den	punct
2	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 en	compound
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Den	flat
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Den	flat
5	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Den	flat
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	2 Den	flat:foreign
7	kittle	kittle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 en	amod
8	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fill	nsubj
9	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fill	obj
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fill	xcomp
12	er	e	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 water	amod
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 full	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
15	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	nsubj
16	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fill	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 put	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 fier	case
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 fier	compound
20	fier	fier	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill in a quote	present	Den kittle en	smellin				full property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	put in a quote	past	en	smellin		de fier			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fier=Destination

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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