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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 12

"Well, Uncle Remus, you know you said the Rabbit poured hot water on the Wolf and killed him," said the little boy.

Who acts: you, Rabbit, little boy · What happens: know, say, pour, kill · To what, where: hot water, Wolf, Rabbit, Uncle Remus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Rabbit, 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

punctdiscoursepunctcompoundoblpunctnsubjccompnsubjccompdetnsubjccompamodobjcasedetoblccconjobjpunctpunctdetamodnsubjpunctroot"PUNCTWellINTJ,PUNCTUnclePROPNRemusPROPN,PUNCTyouPRONknowVERByouPRONsaidVERBtheDETRabbitPROPNpouredVERBhotADJwaterNOUNonADPtheDETWolfPROPNandCCONJkilledVERBhimPRON,PUNCT"PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETlittleADJboyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_5 Remuspunct
2WellwellINTJ_5 Remusdiscourse
3,,PUNCT_2 Wellpunct
4UncleUnclePROPNNumber=Sing5 Remuscompound
5RemusRemusPROPNNumber=Sing24 saidobl
6,,PUNCT_8 knowpunct
7youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs8 knownsubj
8knowknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 saidccomp
9youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs10 saidnsubj
10saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 knowccomp
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 Rabbitdet
12RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing13 pourednsubj
13pouredpourVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 saidccomp
14hothotADJDegree=Pos15 wateramod
15waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing13 pouredobj
16ononADP_18 Wolfcase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 Wolfdet
18WolfWolfPROPNNumber=Sing13 pouredobl
19andandCCONJ_20 killedcc
20killedkillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 saidconj
21himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 killedobj
22,,PUNCT_8 knowpunct
23""PUNCT_8 knowpunct
24saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 boydet
26littlelittleADJDegree=Pos27 boyamod
27boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing24 saidnsubj
28..PUNCT_24 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1know in a quotepresentyouvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2say speech: assert in a quotepastyouvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3pour in a quotepastthe Rabbithot waterthe Wolfvn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
4kill in a quotepastyou not said hereRabbitvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5say speech: assertpastthe little boyUncle Remusvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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