Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 2

Here the old man paused and glanced at the little boy, but it was evident that the youngster had become so accustomed to the marvelous developments of Uncle Remus's stories, that the extraordinary statement made no unusual impression upon him.

Who acts: old man, tail, youngster, extraordinary statement · What happens: pause, glance, be, become, accustom, make · To what, where: unusual impression, stories

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 (old man, tail, youngster, extraordinary statement), 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 paused	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 paused	nsubj
5	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 glanced	cc
7	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paused	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 boy	case
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	7 glanced	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 evident	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 evident	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 evident	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 evident	cop
16	evident	evident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 paused	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 become	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 youngster	det
19	youngster	youngster	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 become	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 become	aux
21	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 evident	advcl
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 accustomed	advmod
23	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 become	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 developments	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 developments	det
26	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 developments	amod
27	developments	development	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 accustomed	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 stories	case
29	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Remus	compound
30	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 stories	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 Remus	case
32	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 developments	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 made	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 made	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 statement	det
36	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 statement	amod
37	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 made	nsubj
38	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paused	conj
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 impression	det
40	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 impression	amod
41	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 made	obj
42	upon	upon	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 made	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pause	past	the old man		here		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	glance	past	the old man not said here			at the little boy	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at boy=Theme
3	is	past	tail			evident property	tree rules
4	become	past · perfect	the youngster				tree rules
5	accustom	participle	the youngster not said here			to the marvelous developments of Uncle Remus's stories	tree rules
6	make	past	the extraordinary statement	no unusual impression		upon Remus	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product
7	develop			Uncle Remus's stories			nom development «act transitive»: of=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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