Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 7
"Wasn't the Rabbit scared, Uncle Remus?" asked the little boy.
Who acts: little boy · What happens: not be, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (little boy), 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 | _ | 6 scared | punct |
| 2 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 scared | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 scared | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Rabbit | det |
| 5 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scared | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 asked | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Remus | punct |
| 8 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Remus | compound |
| 9 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 scared | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 scared | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 scared | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 boy | amod |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | past | the Rabbit obl:unmarked; Uncle Remus obl; scared property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the little boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=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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