Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 77

There is another version in which the impertinent gosling goes to tell the fox something her mother has said, and is caught; and there may be other versions.

Who acts: version, impertinent gosling, mother · What happens: be, go, tell, say, catch · To what, where: version, something, other versions · 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 (version, impertinent gosling, mother), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 version	det
4	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 goes	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gosling	det
8	impertinent	impertinent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gosling	amod
9	gosling	gosling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 goes	nsubj
10	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 version	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 goes	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 something	det
14	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 something	compound
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 tell	obj
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	aux
19	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 something	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 caught	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 caught	cc
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 caught	aux:pass
23	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 goes	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 versions	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 be	cc
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 be	expl
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 be	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 versions	cop
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 versions	amod
30	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 is	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	present	another version		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	present	the impertinent gosling		another version	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the impertinent gosling not said here	something		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	present · perfect	gosling's mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	catch	present · passive	the impertinent gosling not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»
6	is a	infinitive	another version not said here	other versions		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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