Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 7

Once or twice he sighed deeply, and the sighs ended in a prolonged groan, that seemed to the little boy to be the result of the most unspeakable mental agony.

Who acts: man, sighs, prolonged groan · What happens: sigh, end, prolong, seem, be · To what, where: prolonged groan, result

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 (man, sighs, prolonged groan), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 sighed	advmod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 twice	cc
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Once	conj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sighed	nsubj
5	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	5 sighed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ended	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ended	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sighs	det
10	sighs	sigh	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ended	nsubj
11	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sighed	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 groan	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 groan	det
14	prolonged	prolong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 groan	amod
15	groan	groan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ended	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 groan	acl:relcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 boy	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boy	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boy	amod
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	26 result	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 result	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 result	det
26	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 boy	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	32 agony	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 agony	det
29	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	30 unspeakable	advmod
30	unspeakable	unspeakable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 agony	amod
31	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 agony	amod
32	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 result	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sigh	past	man			deeply, once property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	end	past	the sighs		a prolonged groan		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	prolong	participle					vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
4	seem	past	a prolonged groan			to the little boy	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	is a	to-infinitive		the result		of the unspeakable mental agony	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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