Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 41
"'I'm fixin fer ter make you a nice cup er tea, Brer Wolf.'
Who acts: Tobacco, fer ter · What happens: be, make · To what, where: nice cup er tea, you
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 (Tobacco, fer ter), 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 make | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fer | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 fer | nsubj |
| 4 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fer | cop |
| 5 | fixin | fixin | ADV | _ | 6 fer | advmod |
| 6 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 ter | amod |
| 7 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 make | nsubj |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tea | det |
| 11 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tea | amod |
| 12 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tea | compound |
| 13 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tea | compound |
| 14 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Wolf | punct |
| 16 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Wolf | compound |
| 17 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 tea | appos |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Tobacco | f, fixin property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | fer ter | a nice cup er tea | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary tea=Product |
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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