Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 11

"Well, but Uncle Remus, you said rabbits had long, bushy tails," replied the little boy. "

Who acts: you, rabbits, little boy · What happens: say, have, reply · To what, where: long bushy tails · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, rabbits, 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 Uncle	cc
5	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Well	conj
6	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Uncle	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tails	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 long	punct
14	bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tails	amod
15	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 replied	punct
18	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boy	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 boy	amod
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 replied	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	past	rabbits	long bushy tails	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
3	reply speech: assert	past	the little boy		vn respond-113 «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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