Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 41
"'I speck dat butter melt in somebody mouf,' sezee.
Who acts: Uncle Remus · What happens: speck, melt · To what, where: dat butter, somebody mouf
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 (Uncle Remus), 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 | _ | 4 speck | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 speck | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 speck | nsubj |
| 4 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 butter | compound |
| 6 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speck | obj |
| 7 | melt | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 speck | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mouf | case |
| 9 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 mouf | compound |
| 10 | mouf | mouf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 melt | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sezee | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sezee | punct |
| 13 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mouf | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speck in a quote | present | Uncle Remus = remus | dat butter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | melt in a quote | present | Uncle Remus = remus not said here | somebody mouf and sezee | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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