Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 30

"Are they all that way just because the old Rabbit lost his tail in the creek?" asked the little boy.

Who acts: woods, old Rabbit, little boy · What happens: be, lose, ask · To what, where: way, tail, creek · 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 (woods, old Rabbit, 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 way	punct
2	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 way	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 way	det
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asked	ccomp
7	just	just	ADV	_	12 lost	advmod
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 lost	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Rabbit	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Rabbit	amod
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 lost	nsubj
12	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 way	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tail	nmod:poss
14	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lost	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 creek	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 creek	det
17	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lost	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 boy	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 boy	amod
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asked	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	woods = wood	all way		tree rules
2	lose in a quote	past	the old Rabbit	Rabbit's tail	the creek	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	past	the little boy			vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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