Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 76
*1 An Atlanta friend heard this story in Florida, but an alligator was substituted for the fox, and a little boy for the rabbit.
Who acts: Atlanta friend · What happens: hear, substitute · To what, where: 1, alligator
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 (Atlanta friend), 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 | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 heard | obl |
| 3 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 4 | Atlanta | Atlanta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 friend | compound |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Florida | case |
| 10 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 story | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 substituted | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 substituted | cc |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 alligator | det |
| 14 | alligator | alligator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 substituted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 substituted | aux:pass |
| 16 | substituted | substitute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 heard | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 fox | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fox | det |
| 19 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 substituted | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 boy | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 boy | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 boy | amod |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 rabbit | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rabbit | det |
| 27 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 boy | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | a Atlanta friend | 1 | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | substitute | past · passive | a alligator | for the fox | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location |
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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