Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 9
Mr. Terrapin appears upon the Scene XI.
Who acts: Mr. Terrapin · What happens: appear · To what, where: Scene XI
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. Terrapin), 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 Terrapin | compound |
| 2 | Terrapin | terrapin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appears | nsubj |
| 3 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 XI | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 XI | det |
| 6 | Scene | Scene | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 XI | compound |
| 7 | XI | XI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 appears | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | Mr. Terrapin | the Scene XI | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon xi=Location |
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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