Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 1

"HIT look like ter me," said Uncle Remus, frowning, as the little boy came hopping and skipping into the old man's cabin, "dat I see a young un 'bout yo' size playin' en makin' free wid dem ar chilluns er ole Miss Favers's yistiddy, en w'en I seed dat, I drap my axe, en I come in yer en sot flat down right whar you er settin' now, en I say ter myse'f dat it's 'bout time fer ole Remus fer ter hang up en quit.

Who acts: HIT, Uncle Remus, little boy, I, you, en · What happens: look, say, frown, come, hop, skip · To what, where: cabin, dat, axe, yer en sot, right whar, ter myse'f · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (HIT, Uncle Remus, little boy, I), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
2	HIT	HIT	PROPN	_	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 me	case
5	ter	ter	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 look	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Remus	compound
11	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 frowning	punct
13	frowning	frown	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 boy	amod
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
20	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 came	advcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 skipping	cc
22	skipping	skip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 hopping	conj
23	into	into	ADP	_	28 cabin	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cabin	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 man	case
28	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 skipping	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 dat	punct
31	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obl
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 see	nsubj
33	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 came	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 un	det
35	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 un	amod
36	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 yo	compound
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 un	punct
38	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 yo	compound
39	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obj
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	42 playin	punct
41	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 playin	compound
42	playin	playin	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 yo	appos
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	45 makin	punct
44	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 makin	compound
45	makin	makin	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 playin	appos
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	49 dem	punct
47	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 dem	amod
48	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 dem	amod
49	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 makin	conj
50	ar	ar	X	ExtPos=PROPN	49 dem	appos
51	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 ar	goeswith
52	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	53 ole	advmod
53	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 yistiddy	amod
54	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 Favers	compound
55	Favers	Favers	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 yistiddy	nmod:poss
56	's	's	PART	_	55 Favers	case
57	yistiddy	yistiddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 chilluns	nmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 w'en	punct
59	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 w'en	compound
60	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 yistiddy	appos
61	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	63 dat	nsubj
62	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 dat	compound
63	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 w'en	conj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 drap	punct
65	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	66 drap	nsubj
66	drap	drap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	72 come	advcl
67	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 axe	nmod:poss
68	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 drap	obj
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 en	punct
70	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 axe	conj
71	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	72 come	nsubj
72	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 see	conj
73	in	in	ADV	_	72 come	advmod
74	yer	y	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	76 sot	amod
75	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 sot	compound
76	sot	sot	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 come	obl
77	flat	flat	ADV	_	78 down	advmod
78	down	down	ADV	_	79 right	advmod
79	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	80 whar	amod
80	whar	whar	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 er	obl
81	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	82 er	nsubj
82	er	er	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	72 come	parataxis
83	settin	settin	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 er	obj
84	'	'	PUNCT	_	83 settin	punct
85	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	82 er	advmod
86	,	,	PUNCT	_	87 en	punct
87	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	92 dat	nsubj
88	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	89 say	nsubj
89	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	87 en	acl:relcl
90	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	91 myse'f	compound
91	myse'f	myse'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	89 say	obj
92	dat	dat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	82 er	parataxis
93	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	97 time	nsubj
94	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	97 time	cop
95	'	's	PART	_	94 's	case
96	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	97 time	compound
97	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	92 dat	ccomp
98	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	102 ter	amod
99	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	102 ter	amod
100	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	102 ter	compound
101	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	102 ter	compound
102	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	103 hang	nsubj
103	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	97 time	acl:relcl
104	up	up	ADP	_	103 hang	compound:prt
105	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	106 quit	compound
106	quit	quit	NOUN	Number=Sing	103 hang	obj
107	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	HIT				like Uncle Remus = remus	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Uncle Remus					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	frown	gerund	Uncle Remus not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	the little boy					tree rules
5	hop	gerund	the little boy not said here					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	skip	gerund	the little boy not said here		the old man's cabin			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cabin=Destination
7	see in a quote	present	I	dat				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yo=Stimulus
8	dat in a quote		I					tree rules
9	drap in a quote	present	I	my axe and en				tree rules
10	come in in a quote	present	I	yer en sot				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	er in a quote	present	you	right whar		now		tree rules
12	say speech: assert in a quote	present	I	ter myse'f				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent myse'f=Topic
13	dat in a quote	past	en					tree rules
14	is a in a quote	present	en	bout time				tree rules
15	hang up in a quote	infinitive	fer ole Remus fer ter	en quit				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quit=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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