Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 6
The frown was chased away by a look of Christian resignation.
Who acts: look · What happens: chase away · To what, where: frown
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 (look), 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 frown | det |
| 2 | frown | frown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chased | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chased | aux:pass |
| 4 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 chased | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 look | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 look | det |
| 8 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chased | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 resignation | case |
| 10 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 resignation | amod |
| 11 | resignation | resignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase away | past · passive | a look of Christian resignation | the frown | away property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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