Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 37

De las' drap er dat butter done gone!'

Who acts: las, dat butter · What happens: drap, do, go

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 (las, dat butter), 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	De	De	X	Foreign=Yes	2 las	nmod
2	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drap	nsubj
3	'	's	PART	_	2 las	case
4	drap	drap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 gone	advmod
6	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 butter	compound
7	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	nsubj
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 gone	advcl
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 drap	advcl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	drap	infinitive	las De	tree rules
2	do	participle	dat butter not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	participle	dat butter	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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