Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 24

The little boy didn't remember, but he was very anxious to know, and he also wanted to know what kind of a bird it was that so disgraced itself.

Who acts: little boy, boy, kind · What happens: not remember, be, know, want · To what, where: kind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, boy, kind), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remember	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 remember	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 remember	advmod
6	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 anxious	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 anxious	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 anxious	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 anxious	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 anxious	advmod
12	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 remember	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 know	mark
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 anxious	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wanted	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wanted	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wanted	nsubj
18	also	also	ADV	_	19 wanted	advmod
19	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 remember	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 know	mark
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wanted	xcomp
22	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	23 kind	det
23	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 know	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 bird	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bird	det
26	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kind	nmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 disgraced	nsubj:outer
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 disgraced	cop
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 disgraced	mark
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 disgraced	advmod
31	disgraced	disgrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 bird	conj
32	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 disgraced	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not remember	past · do-support	the little boy			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	boy		anxious property	tree rules
3	know	to-infinitive	boy not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	want	past	boy			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here	what kind of a bird		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus
6	is	past	kind		disgrace 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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