Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 28
How Mr. Rabbit succeeded in raising a Dust.
Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: succeed, raise · To what, where: Dust
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 (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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 succeeded | advmod |
| 2 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rabbit | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 succeeded | nsubj |
| 4 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 raising | mark |
| 6 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 succeeded | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Dust | det |
| 8 | Dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 raising | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past | Rabbit Mr. | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | raise | gerund | Rabbit Mr. not said here | a Dust | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=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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