Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 61

"But, Uncle Remus, Brother Possum didn't steal the butter after all," said the little boy, who was not at all satisfied with such summary injustice.

Who acts: Uncle Remus, little boy · What happens: not steal, say, not be · To what, where: butter, all · 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 (Uncle Remus, little boy), 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	_	11 steal	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 steal	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Remus	punct
4	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Remus	compound
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 steal	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Brother	punct
7	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Remus	conj
8	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Brother	flat
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 steal	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 steal	advmod
11	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 butter	det
13	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 steal	obj
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 steal	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 steal	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 steal	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boy	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 boy	amod
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 satisfied	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 satisfied	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 satisfied	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 satisfied	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 all	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 satisfied	obl
28	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 boy	acl:relcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 injustice	case
30	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 injustice	amod
31	summary	summary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 injustice	amod
32	injustice	injustice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 satisfied	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not steal in a quote	past · do-support	Uncle Remus and Brother	the butter		after all		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location butter=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the little boy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not is	past	the little boy		all		with such summary injustice; satisfied property	tree rules

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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