Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 39
"'Look like she dry up,' sez Brer Possum, sezee.
Who acts: you, Whar · What happens: look, dry up, say · To what, where: Brer · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Whar), 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 | _ | 3 Look | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Look | punct |
| 3 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 6 dry | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dry | nsubj |
| 6 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Look | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 dry | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sez | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 sez | punct |
| 10 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Look | conj |
| 11 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sez | obj |
| 12 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sezee | punct |
| 14 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Brer | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | dry up in a quote | infinitive | Whar | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you not said here | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=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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