Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 1

WHEN the little boy ran in to see Uncle Remus the night after he had told him of the awful fate of Brer Wolf, the only response to his greeting was:

Who acts: little boy, boy, only response, response · What happens: run in, see, tell, be, fate, greet · To what, where: Uncle Remus, Remus, Brer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, boy, only response, response), 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	WHEN	when	SCONJ	_	5 ran	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 was	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 ran	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ran	advcl
9	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Remus	compound
10	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 see	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obl:unmarked
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 told	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	aux
16	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 see	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 fate	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fate	det
20	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fate	amod
21	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Brer	case
23	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 fate	nmod
24	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Brer	flat
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 response	det
27	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 response	amod
28	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 was	nsubj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 greeting	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 greeting	nmod:poss
31	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 response	nmod
32	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	run in	past	the little boy					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	the little boy not said here	Uncle Remus		night		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer remus=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	boy		Remus		of the awful fate of Brer	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	be	past	the only response to response's greeting					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fate			Brer				nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient
6	greet		response					nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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