Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 3

The little boy sat perfectly quiet, betraying no impatience when Uncle Remus paused to hunt, first in one pocket and then in another, for enough crumbs of tobacco to replenish his pipe.

Who acts: little boy, Uncle · What happens: sit, betray, pause, hunt, replenish · To what, where: impatience, one pocket, pipe

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, Uncle), 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 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sat	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 betraying	punct
8	betraying	betray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 paused	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 impatience	det
10	impatience	impatience	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 betraying	obj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 paused	advmod
12	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 paused	nsubj
13	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Uncle	flat
14	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hunt	mark
16	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 paused	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 first	punct
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 hunt	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 pocket	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 pocket	nummod
21	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hunt	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 another	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 another	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 another	case
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 paused	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 crumbs	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 crumbs	case
28	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 crumbs	amod
29	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 paused	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 tobacco	case
31	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crumbs	nmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 replenish	mark
33	replenish	replenish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 paused	advcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 pipe	nmod:poss
35	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 replenish	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the little boy			perfectly, quiet property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	betray	gerund	Uncle not said here	no impatience			tree rules
3	pause	past	Uncle			for enough crumbs of tobacco	tree rules
4	hunt	to-infinitive	Uncle not said here		one pocket	first property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in pocket=Location
5	replenish	to-infinitive	Uncle not said here	Uncle's pipe			vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pipe=Destination

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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