Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 74
"Did the Fox eat the bird all--all up?" asked the little boy.
Who acts: Fox, little boy · What happens: eat, ask · To what, where: bird · 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 (Fox, 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 Fox | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Fox | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fox | det |
| 4 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obj |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 eat | advmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 asked | advmod |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 all | compound:prt |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 all | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 all | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boy | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boy | amod |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | present | the Fox | the bird | all property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the little boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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