Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 53
Ain't you never see no fox, honey?" inquired Uncle Remus, in a tone that implied both conciliation and information.
Who acts: Ai, fox, tone · What happens: not see, inquire, imply · To what, where: Uncle Remus, tone, conciliation · 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 (Ai, fox, tone), 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 | Ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | nsubj |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 fox | det |
| 7 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inquired | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 honey | punct |
| 9 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fox | appos |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 honey | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 honey | punct |
| 12 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | ccomp |
| 13 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Remus | compound |
| 14 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 inquired | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tone | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 tone | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tone | det |
| 18 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inquired | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 implied | nsubj |
| 20 | implied | imply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tone | acl:relcl |
| 21 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 conciliation | det |
| 22 | conciliation | conciliation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 implied | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 information | cc |
| 24 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 conciliation | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | present | Ai | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other in a quote | past | no fox | Uncle Remus | a tone | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent remus=Recipient | |||
| 3 | imply in a quote | past | a tone | both conciliation and information | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot conciliation=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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