Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 16
Mr. Rabbit nibbles up the Butter XVIII.
Who acts: Mr. Rabbit · What happens: nibble up · To what, where: Butter XVIII
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. Rabbit), 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 Rabbit | compound |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nibbles | nsubj |
| 3 | nibbles | nibble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 nibbles | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 XVIII | det |
| 6 | Butter | Butter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 XVIII | compound |
| 7 | XVIII | XVIII | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nibbles | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nibbles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nibble up | present | Mr. Rabbit | the Butter XVIII | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent xviii=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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