Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 27

Take dish yer sifter, en run down't de spring en fetch me some fresh water.'

Who acts: you, sifter, de spring en · What happens: take, run, not fetch · To what, where: dish, fresh water, me

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 (you, sifter, de spring en), 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
3	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sifter	nmod:poss
4	sifter	sifter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 run	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 en	punct
6	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sifter	conj
7	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	parataxis
8	dow	dow	ADV	_	13 fetch	advmod
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 fetch	advmod
10	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 en	amod
11	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 en	compound
12	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fetch	nsubj
13	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 run	advcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 fetch	obj
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 water	det
16	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 water	amod
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fetch	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	dish			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme
2	run	present	yer's sifter and en				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not fetch	infinitive	de spring en	some fresh water	me	dow property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary water=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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