Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, sentence 36

"The Bear didn't catch the Rabbit, then?" inquired the little boy, sleepily.

Who acts: Bear, little boy · What happens: not catch, inquire · To what, where: Rabbit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bear, little boy), 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	_	6 catch	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Bear	det
3	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 catch	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 catch	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 catch	advmod
6	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 inquired	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Rabbit	det
8	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 catch	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 catch	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 catch	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 catch	punct
13	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boy	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 inquired	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sleepily	punct
18	sleepily	sleepily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not catch in a quote	past · do-support	the Bear	the Rabbit			then		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme
2	inquire speech: other	past	the little boy						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how 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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