Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 12
The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf XIV.
What happens: fate · To what, where: Wolf XIV
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Fate | det |
| 2 | Awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Fate | amod |
| 3 | Fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 XIV | case |
| 5 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Wolf | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 XIV | compound |
| 7 | XIV | XIV | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Fate | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fate | Wolf XIV | nom fate «event transitive»: of=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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