Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 35
"It's a wonder," said the little boy, after a while, "that the rope didn't break."
Who acts: mouf, wonder, rope · What happens: be, say, not break · To what, where: wonder · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mouf, wonder, rope), 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 | _ | 5 wonder | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wonder | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wonder | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wonder | det |
| 5 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wonder | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wonder | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boy | amod |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 while | punct |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 while | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 while | det |
| 15 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 break | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 break | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 break | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rope | det |
| 20 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 break | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 break | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 break | advmod |
| 23 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 break | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | mouf | a wonder | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a wonder | while | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not break in a quote | past · do-support | the rope | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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