Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 6
Involuntarily the hand of the little boy went up to his face, and he scrubbed the end of his nose with his coat-sleeve.
Who acts: hand · What happens: go up, scrub · To what, where: end
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 (hand), 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 | Involuntarily | involuntarily | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hand | det |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 boy | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boy | amod |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hand | nmod |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 went | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 face | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 scrubbed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 scrubbed | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 scrubbed | nsubj |
| 16 | scrubbed | scrub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scrubbed | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 nose | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 nose | nmod:poss |
| 21 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 end | nmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 sleeve | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sleeve | nmod:poss |
| 24 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sleeve | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 coat | punct |
| 26 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scrubbed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | the hand of the little boy | to hand's face; involuntarily property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | scrub | past | hand | the end of hand's nose | with hand's coat sleeve | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent end=Source |
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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