Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 3
Therefore the old man began again, and this time in a louder and more insinuating tone:
Who acts: old man · What happens: begin, insinuate · To what, where: tone
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), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 began | 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 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 began | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 time | cc |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 louder | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 louder | det |
| 13 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 time | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 insinuating | cc |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 insinuating | advmod |
| 16 | insinuating | insinuate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 louder | conj |
| 17 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 insinuating | obj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the old man | again | therefore property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | insinuate speech: other | gerund | the old man not said here | tone | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tone=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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