Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 5

Mr. Rabbit grossly deceives Mr. Fox VII.

Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: deceive · To what, where: Mr. Fox VII

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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Rabbit	nmod:desc
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 deceives	nsubj
3	grossly	grossly	ADV	_	4 deceives	advmod
4	deceives	deceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 VII	compound
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 VII	compound
7	VII	vii	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deceives	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 deceives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deceive	present	Rabbit Mr.	Mr. Fox VII				grossly property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vii=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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