Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 4

How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox V. The Story of the Deluge, and how it came about VI.

Who acts: Rabbit, Deluge · What happens: be, come about · To what, where: VI

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, Deluge), 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	6 sharp	advmod
2	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rabbit	nmod:desc
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sharp	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sharp	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 sharp	advmod
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 Fox	case
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Fox	nmod:desc
9	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sharp	obl
10	V.	V.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Fox	flat
11	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Story	det
12	Story	Story	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Fox	flat
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Deluge	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Deluge	det
15	Deluge	Deluge	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Story	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 came	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sharp	conj
21	about	about	ADV	_	22 VI	advmod
22	VI	VI	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	20 came	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sharp	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Rabbit Mr.					for Fox Mr.; sharp property	tree rules
2	come about	past	Deluge	VI					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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