Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 38
This put an end to whatever doubts the child might have entertained.
Who acts: This, whatever · What happens: put, doubt, entertain · To what, where: end, child
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 (This, whatever), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 whatever | case |
| 6 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 doubts | nsubj |
| 7 | doubts | doubt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doubts | obj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 entertained | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 entertained | aux |
| 12 | entertained | entertain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 child | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | infinitive | This | a end | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal | ||||
| 2 | doubt | present | whatever | the child | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 3 | entertain | might · perfect | the child not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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