Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 1

"WELL, Uncle Remus," said the little boy, counting to see if he hadn't lost a marble somewhere, "the Bear didn't catch the Rabbit after all, did he?"

Who acts: Uncle Remus, Remus, Bear · What happens: say, count, see, not lose, not catch, do · To what, where: little boy, marble, Rabbit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus, Remus, Bear), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	WELL	well	INTJ	_	8 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 WELL	punct
4	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Remus	compound
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Remus	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Remus	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 counting	punct
13	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 counting	advcl
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 lost	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lost	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lost	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 lost	advmod
20	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 see	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 marble	det
22	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lost	obj
23	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 lost	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 catch	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 catch	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Bear	det
27	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 catch	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 catch	aux
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 catch	advmod
30	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 counting	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Rabbit	det
32	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 catch	obj
33	after	after	ADP	_	34 all	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 catch	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 did	punct
36	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 did	nsubj
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Uncle Remus	the little boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent boy=Topic
2	count	gerund	Uncle Remus not said here				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	to-infinitive	Uncle Remus not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not lose a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Remus	a marble		somewhere property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marble=Eventuality
5	not catch in a quote	past · do-support	the Bear	the Rabbit	after all		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme
6	do in a quote	past	Bear				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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