Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 16

Den he raise up his head, he did, en holler out:

Who acts: Den · What happens: raise up, do out · To what, where: head, en holler

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter. 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 raise	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 raise	nsubj
3	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 raise	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raise	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 raise	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 holler	punct
11	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 holler	compound
12	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	9 did	compound:prt
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 raise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise up	infinitive	Den	den's head					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	do out	past	den	en holler					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holler=Eventuality

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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