Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 52
He got back little fudder, en spit on his han's, en lit out en made de jump, en he come so nigh gittin' in dat de een' er his tail kotch afier.
Who acts: den, en lit en · What happens: get back, lit out, make, come · To what, where: little fudder, de jump, gittin
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, en lit en), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 got | advmod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fudder | amod |
| 5 | fudder | fudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spit | punct |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spit | compound |
| 8 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fudder | appos |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 en | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 han | nmod:poss |
| 11 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 en | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 han | case |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 en | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 en | compound |
| 15 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 en | amod |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 lit | compound:prt |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spit | nmod |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 en | acl |
| 19 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 jump | amod |
| 20 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 en | punct |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fudder | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 come | nsubj |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 en | acl:relcl |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 gittin | advmod |
| 26 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 27 gittin | advmod |
| 27 | gittin | gittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | obl |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 gittin | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 dat | case |
| 30 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gittin | nmod |
| 31 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 32 een | compound |
| 32 | een | een | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dat | appos |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 een | punct |
| 34 | er | er | ADP | _ | 38 afier | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 afier | nmod:poss |
| 36 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 kotch | compound |
| 37 | kotch | kotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 afier | compound |
| 38 | afier | afier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gittin | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | den | little fudder and en | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fudder=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lit out | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | make | participle | den's han's en lit en not said here | de jump | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset jump=Product | ||||
| 4 | come | present | den | gittin in dat er den's kotch afier | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location en=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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