Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 6

"When he dropped off of the water-shelf on the Fox's head," suggested the little boy.

Who acts: Brer, little boy · What happens: drop off, suggest · To what, where: water shelf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, 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	_	4 dropped	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dropped	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 suggested	parataxis
5	off	off	ADP	_	10 shelf	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 shelf	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shelf	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shelf	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 water	punct
10	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	15 head	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Fox	det
13	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 head	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Fox	case
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shelf	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
18	suggested	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 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 suggested	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 suggested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop off in a quote	past	Brer	the water shelf on the Fox's head					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelf=Theme
2	suggest speech: suggest	past	the little boy						vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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