Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 27

"Did it come off, Uncle Remus?" asked the little boy, presently.

Who acts: pause, little boy · What happens: come off, ask · 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 (pause, 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	_	4 come	punct
2	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	ccomp
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 come	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Remus	punct
7	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Remus	compound
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 come	vocative
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 boy	amod
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 presently	punct
16	presently	presently	ADV	_	11 asked	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come off in a quote	past · do-support	pause					Uncle Remus vocative	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	the little boy					presently property	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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