Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 55

"Well, den," continued the old man, "nex' time you see one un um, you look right close en see ef de een' er his tail ain't w'ite.

Who acts: den, you · What happens: continue, see, look · To what, where: old man, one un um, close en, ef de een · 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 (den, you), 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 den	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 den	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 continued	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 den	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 den	punct
7	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 continued	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 nex	punct
13	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 time	compound
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 nex	punct
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obl:unmarked
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
17	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 continued	parataxis
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 um	nummod
19	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 um	compound
20	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 look	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 look	nsubj
23	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 see	conj
24	right	right	ADV	_	25 close	advmod
25	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 en	amod
26	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 look	obj
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 look	xcomp
28	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 een	compound
29	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	30 een	compound
30	een	een	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obj
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 een	punct
32	er	er	ADP	_	35 ai	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 ai	nmod:poss
34	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ai	compound
35	ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obl
36	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 w'ite	advmod
37	w'ite	w'ite	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ai	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	den	the old man			tree rules
2	see in a quote	present	you	one un um	time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer um=Stimulus
3	look in a quote	present	you	close en			tree rules
4	see in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	ef de een		er den's tail ai w'ite	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer een=Stimulus

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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