Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 4

Uncle Remus evidently thought that the little boy wouldn't like to hear of any further discomfiture of Brer Rabbit, who had come to be a sort of hero, and he was not mistaken.

Who acts: Uncle, little boy, further discomfiture, boy · What happens: think, not like, hear, come, be, not be · To what, where: further discomfiture, sort, Brer · Speech: someone speaks here

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, little boy, further discomfiture, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Uncle	flat
3	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 like	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 like	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 like	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 like	advmod
11	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hear	mark
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 like	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 discomfiture	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 discomfiture	det
16	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 discomfiture	amod
17	discomfiture	discomfiture	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hear	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Brer	case
19	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 discomfiture	nmod
20	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Brer	flat
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 come	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 discomfiture	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	28 sort	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 sort	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 sort	det
28	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 hero	case
30	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sort	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 mistaken	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 mistaken	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 mistaken	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 mistaken	cop
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 mistaken	advmod
36	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Uncle		evidently property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not like	would	the little boy			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	the little boy not said here	any further discomfiture of Brer		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer discomfiture=Stimulus
4	come	past · perfect	any further discomfiture of Brer			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	to-infinitive	any further discomfiture of Brer not said here	a sort	of hero	tree rules
6	not is	past	boy		mistaken property	tree rules
7	discomfit			Brer		nom discomfiture «feeling transitive»: of=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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