Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 31
"Dat's it, honey," replied the old man. "
Who acts: Dat · What happens: reply · To what, where: old man
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 (Dat), 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 | _ | 2 Dat | punct |
| 2 | Dat | Dat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Dat | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Dat | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 honey | punct |
| 6 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Dat | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 honey | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dat | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Dat | the old man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=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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