Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 52
Den Brer Rabbit he got de kittle en commenced fer to po' de hot water on de chist-lid.
Who acts: Den Rabbit, kittle en · What happens: get, commence · To what, where: kittle en, fer
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 Rabbit, kittle 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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rabbit | compound |
| 2 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | de | de | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | kittle | kittle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 en | amod |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 9 | commenced | commence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 en | acl |
| 10 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 commenced | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 po | case |
| 12 | po | po | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 commenced | obl |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 po | punct |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 water | dep |
| 15 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 water | amod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 po | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 lid | case |
| 18 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lid | amod |
| 19 | chist | chist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lid | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 chist | punct |
| 21 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 water | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Den Rabbit | kittle en | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | commence | participle | kittle en not said here | fer | to po and hot water on de chist lid | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fer=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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