Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 30
Den he retch out fer ter shake han's, en in he went, heels over head, en Brer Tarrypin bubble out:
Who acts: Den · What happens: retch out, shake, go · To what, where: fer ter, en, heels, head
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 (Den), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retch | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 retch | nsubj |
| 3 | retch | retch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 retch | compound:prt |
| 5 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ter | compound |
| 6 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retch | obj |
| 7 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 retch | parataxis |
| 8 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 en | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 han | case |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 en | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shake | obj |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 went | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shake | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 heels | punct |
| 16 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 went | obl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 en | punct |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retch | parataxis |
| 21 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 bubble | compound |
| 22 | Tarrypin | Tarrypin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Brer | flat |
| 23 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 en | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 bubble | compound:prt |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 retch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retch out | infinitive | Den | fer ter | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shake | infinitive | han's en | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent en=Patient | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Den | heels | head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over head=Initial_Location |
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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