Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 11
When Uncle Remus had the bristle "sot" in the thread, he proceeded with the story:
Who acts: Uncle · What happens: have, proceed · To what, where: bristle, thread
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Uncle | flat |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 proceeded | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bristle | det |
| 6 | bristle | bristle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sot | punct |
| 8 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bristle | appos |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sot | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 thread | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thread | det |
| 12 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 proceeded | nsubj |
| 15 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 story | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 story | det |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 proceeded | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Uncle | the bristle | the thread | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bristle=Patient | |||
| 2 | proceed | past | Uncle | with the story | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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