Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 5

"I thought the Terrapin was the only one that fooled the Rabbit," said the little boy, dismally.

Who acts: little boy, Terrapin, only one · What happens: think, be, fool, say · To what, where: only one, Rabbit · 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 (little boy, Terrapin, only one), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
5	Terrapin	Terrapin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 one	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 one	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
8	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 fooled	nsubj
11	fooled	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 one	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Rabbit	det
13	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fooled	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boy	amod
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dismally	punct
21	dismally	dismally	ADV	_	16 said	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	past	the little boy = boy			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	Terrapin	the only one		tree rules
3	fool in a quote	past	the only one	the Rabbit		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	the little boy		dismally property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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