Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 13

He was a very wise little boy, and he knew that, in Uncle Remus's eyes, he had been guilty of a flagrant violation of the family code.

Who acts: boy · What happens: be, know, violate · To what, where: wise little boy, eyes, guilty, family code

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 (boy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 boy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 wise	advmod
5	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knew	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 knew	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knew	nsubj
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	acl:relcl
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 knew	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eyes	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 eyes	case
15	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Remus	compound
16	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 eyes	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Remus	case
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 knew	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 guilty	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 guilty	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 guilty	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 guilty	cop
23	guilty	guilty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boy	acl:relcl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 violation	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 violation	det
26	flagrant	flagrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 violation	amod
27	violation	violation	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 guilty	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 code	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 code	det
30	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 code	compound
31	code	code	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 violation	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	boy	a wise little boy			tree rules
2	know	past	boy	a wise little boy	Uncle Remus's eyes		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	is a	past · perfect	boy	guilty		of a flagrant violation of the family code	tree rules
4	violate			the family code			nom violation «act transitive»: of=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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