Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 52

"'Did he kill the Frog, Uncle Remus?" asked the little boy, as the old man paused to scoop up a thimbleful of glowing embers in his pipe.

Who acts: en, little boy, old man · What happens: kill, ask, pause, scoop up, glow · To what, where: Frog, thimbleful, pipe · 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 (en, little boy, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 kill	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 kill	punct
3	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kill	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kill	nsubj
5	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Frog	det
7	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kill	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Remus	punct
9	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Remus	compound
10	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Frog	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 kill	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 kill	punct
13	asked	ask	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 asked	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 paused	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 paused	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 paused	nsubj
22	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 scoop	mark
24	scoop	scoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 paused	xcomp
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 scoop	compound:prt
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 thimbleful	det
27	thimbleful	thimbleful	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 scoop	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 embers	case
29	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 embers	amod
30	embers	ember	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 thimbleful	nmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 pipe	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 pipe	nmod:poss
33	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 scoop	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	kill in a quote	past · do-support	en	the Frog and Uncle Remus		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	the little boy			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pause	past	the old man			tree rules
4	scoop up	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	a thimbleful of glowing embers	en's pipe	vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent thimbleful=Theme in pipe=Trajectory
5	glow	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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