Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 4
Atter w'ile he come crosst a well wid a bucket hangin' in it.
Who acts: Atter w'ile · What happens: come · To what, where: crosst bucket hangin, hangin
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Atter w'ile), 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 | Atter | Atter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 w'ile | compound |
| 2 | w'ile | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | crosst | cros | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 hangin | amod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wid | det |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 wid | advmod |
| 8 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crosst | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hangin | det |
| 10 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hangin | compound |
| 11 | hangin | hangin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 hangin | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 come | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | Atter w'ile | a crosst bucket hangin | hangin | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=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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