Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 8

Miss Cow falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit X.

Who acts: Miss Cow · What happens: fall · To what, where: Victim, Rabbit X

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 (Miss Cow), 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	Miss	miss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Cow	compound
2	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	nsubj
3	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Victim	det
5	Victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 X	case
7	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Rabbit	nmod:desc
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 X	compound
9	X	X	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 falls	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 falls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	Miss Cow	a Victim	Rabbit X				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient victim=Extent to x=Result

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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