Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 12

Here the old man used his hand ladle-fashion, by way of illustration. "

Who acts: old man · What happens: use · To what, where: hand ladle fashion

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 (old man), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 used	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	nsubj
5	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fashion	nmod:poss
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fashion	compound
8	ladle	ladle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fashion	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 ladle	punct
10	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 way	case
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 illustration	case
15	illustration	illustration	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 way	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 used	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	the old man	man's hand ladle fashion		here		by way of illustration	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fashion=Patient

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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