Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 7

The old man shifted his position in his chair and allowed his venerable head to drop forward until his whole appearance was suggestive of the deepest dejection; and this was intensified by a groan that seemed to be the result of great mental agony.

Who acts: old man, venerable head, whole appearance, groan · What happens: shift, allow, drop, be, intensify, seem · To what, where: position, chair, venerable head, this, result

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, venerable head, whole appearance, groan), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shifted	nsubj
4	shifted	shift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 position	nmod:poss
6	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shifted	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 chair	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 chair	nmod:poss
9	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shifted	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 allowed	cc
11	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shifted	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
13	venerable	venerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 head	amod
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 allowed	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 drop	mark
16	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 allowed	xcomp
17	forward	forward	ADV	_	16 drop	advmod
18	until	until	SCONJ	_	23 suggestive	mark
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 appearance	nmod:poss
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 appearance	amod
21	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 suggestive	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 suggestive	cop
23	suggestive	suggestive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 drop	advcl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 dejection	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dejection	det
26	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 dejection	amod
27	dejection	dejection	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 suggestive	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 intensified	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 intensified	cc
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 intensified	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 intensified	aux:pass
32	intensified	intensify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 shifted	conj
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 groan	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 groan	det
35	groan	groan	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 intensified	obl
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 seemed	nsubj
37	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 groan	acl:relcl
38	to	to	PART	_	41 result	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 result	cop
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 result	det
41	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 seemed	xcomp
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 agony	case
43	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 agony	amod
44	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 agony	amod
45	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 result	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shift	past	the old man	man's position	man's chair		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer position=Patient
2	allow	past	the old man not said here	man's venerable head			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer head=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	drop not said to happen	to-infinitive	man's venerable head not said here			forward property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	man's whole appearance			of the deepest dejection; suggestive property	tree rules
5	intensify	past · passive	a groan	this			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
6	seem	past	a groan				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	is a	to-infinitive	a groan not said here	the result		of great mental agony	tree rules

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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