Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 30
The little boy didn't know, fortunately for him, and Uncle Remus went on:
Who acts: little boy, Uncle · What happens: not know, go on
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 (little boy, Uncle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fortunately | punct |
| 8 | fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 6 know | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fortunately | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 13 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 14 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Uncle | flat |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | the little boy | fortunately property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | Uncle | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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