Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 17
The child's eyes filled with tears and his lips began to quiver, but he said nothing; whereupon Uncle Remus immediately melted.
Who acts: eyes, man, Uncle · What happens: fill, begin, quiver, say, melt · To what, where: eyes, nothing · 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 (eyes, man, Uncle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 child | case |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 began | nsubj |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 eyes | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 tears | case |
| 7 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 filled | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lips | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lips | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tears | conj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 quiver | mark |
| 13 | quiver | quiver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 began | conj |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 said | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 melted | punct |
| 20 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 melted | advmod |
| 21 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 melted | nsubj |
| 22 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Uncle | flat |
| 23 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 24 melted | advmod |
| 24 | melted | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 began | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle | the child's eyes not said here | with tears and man's lips | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tear=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the child's eyes | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | quiver | to-infinitive | the child's eyes not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | man | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 5 | melt | past | Uncle | immediately, whereupon property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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