Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 7
"How did the Bear get into more trouble, Uncle Remus?" asked the little boy.
Who acts: little boy · What happens: do, get, ask · To what, where: Bear, more trouble · 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 (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 get | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Bear | det |
| 5 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 trouble | case |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 trouble | amod |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Remus | punct |
| 11 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Remus | compound |
| 12 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 trouble | appos |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boy | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boy | amod |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | the Bear | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present | more trouble | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | 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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