Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 57
"'You feels de fleas a bitin', Brer Wolf.'
Who acts: You · What happens: feel · To what, where: de fleas
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), 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 | _ | 4 feels | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 feels | punct |
| 3 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 feels | nsubj |
| 4 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fleas | amod |
| 6 | fleas | flea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 feels | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bitin | det |
| 8 | bitin | bitin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feels | obj |
| 9 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 8 bitin | dep |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Wolf | compound |
| 11 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bitin | appos |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feels | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel in a quote | present | You | de fleas | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent flea=Theme bitin=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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