Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 10
"De time w'en Brer Fox drapt in at Brer Rabbit house, en didn't foun' nobody dar ceppin' de little Rabbits.
Who acts: en, nobody · What happens: drapt in, not foun, ceppin · To what, where: Rabbit house, little Rabbits
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (en, nobody), 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 | _ | 7 drapt | punct |
| 2 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 time | compound |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drapt | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | w'en | w'en | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 time | list |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fox | compound |
| 6 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 w'en | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | drapt | drapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 foun | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 drapt | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Rabbit | compound |
| 11 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 house | compound |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drapt | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 drapt | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 foun | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 foun | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 foun | advmod |
| 17 | foun | foun | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 foun | punct |
| 19 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 ceppin | nsubj |
| 20 | dar | dar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ceppin | amod |
| 21 | ceppin | ceppin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 foun | parataxis |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 ceppin | punct |
| 23 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 ceppin | conj |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Rabbits | amod |
| 25 | Rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ceppin | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 foun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drapt in in a quote | present | en not said here | Rabbit house | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not foun in a quote | past · do-support | en | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ceppin in a quote | nobody | little Rabbits | tree rules |
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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