Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 20
Then there was a pause, the old man patting the little child's hand caressingly.
Who acts: pause, old man · What happens: be, pat · To what, where: hand
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 (pause, old man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pause | det |
| 5 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pause | appos |
| 10 | patting | pat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 man | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 child | amod |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 child | case |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 patting | obj |
| 16 | caressingly | caressingly | ADV | _ | 10 patting | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a pause | there | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | pat | gerund | the old man not said here | the little child's hand | caressingly property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Experiencer |
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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