Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 5
I thought the Wolf let the Rabbit alone, after he tried to fool him about the Fox being dead."
Who acts: I, Wolf, Fox · What happens: think, let, try, fool, be · To what, where: Rabbit, Wolf · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, Wolf, Fox), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wolf | det |
| 4 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 let | nsubj |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Rabbit | det |
| 7 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | obj |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 let | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tried | punct |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 tried | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tried | nsubj |
| 12 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fool | mark |
| 14 | fool | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tried | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fool | obj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 dead | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Fox | det |
| 18 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dead | nsubj |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 dead | cop |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fool | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let | past | the Wolf | the Rabbit | alone property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme | |||
| 3 | try | past | Wolf | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | fool not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wolf not said here | Wolf | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | gerund | the Fox | dead property | tree rules |
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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