Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 8
The child laughed, and playfully shook his fist in the simple, serious face of the venerable old darkey, but said no more.
Who acts: child · What happens: laugh, shake, say · To what, where: fist, simple serious face, more · 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 (child), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shook | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shook | cc |
| 6 | playfully | playfully | ADV | _ | 7 shook | advmod |
| 7 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fist | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fist | fist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shook | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 face | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 face | det |
| 12 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 face | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 simple | punct |
| 14 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 face | amod |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shook | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 darkey | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 darkey | det |
| 18 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 darkey | amod |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 darkey | amod |
| 20 | darkey | darkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 face | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | conj |
| 24 | no | no | ADV | _ | 25 more | advmod |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 said | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the child | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shake | past | the child not said here | child's fist | the simple serious face of the venerable old darkey | playfully property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fist=Theme in face=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the child not said here | more | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
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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