Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 40
"But Brer Fox, he button up his coat-collar tight en des put out fer home.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: button up, put out · To what, where: coat collar, tight en des
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 (Fox), 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 | _ | 4 Fox | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 Fox | cc |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fox | compound |
| 4 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 button | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 button | nsubj |
| 7 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Fox | appos |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 button | compound:prt |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 collar | nmod:poss |
| 10 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 collar | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 coat | punct |
| 12 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 button | nmod |
| 13 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 des | amod |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 des | compound |
| 15 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 collar | conj |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 des | acl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 put | compound:prt |
| 18 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | compound |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 put | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Fox | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | button up in a quote | Fox | Fox's coat collar and tight en des | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | put out in a quote | participle | tight en des not said here | home property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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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