Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter, sentence 64
Look like hit's mighty wrong; but hit's des dat away.
Who acts: you · What happens: look, hit · To what, where: des dat
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 (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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 hit | case |
| 3 | hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 hit | case |
| 5 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wrong | amod |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hit | amod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 hit | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 hit | cc |
| 9 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 hit | obj |
| 11 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dat | compound |
| 12 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hit | obj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 hit | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | like hit | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hit | past | des dat | away property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent 's=Patient dat=Result |
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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