Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 14
Mr. Fox goes a-hunting, but Mr. Rabbit bags the Game XVI.
Who acts: Mr. Fox · What happens: go · To what, where: hunting
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: who acts (Mr. Fox), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | compound |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hunting | det |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 a | punct |
| 6 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bags | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 bags | cc |
| 9 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rabbit | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bags | compound |
| 11 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 goes | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 XVI | det |
| 13 | Game | Game | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 XVI | compound |
| 14 | XVI | XVI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bags | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Mr. Fox | a hunting | Rabbit bags obl | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme |
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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