Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 15
After this there was a long period of silence, broken only by the vigorous style in which Uncle Remus puffed away at his pipe.
Who acts: this, Uncle · What happens: be, break, puff away · To what, where: long period, vigorous style
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 (this, Uncle), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 period | nsubj |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 this | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 period | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 period | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 period | amod |
| 7 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 silence | case |
| 9 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 period | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 broken | punct |
| 11 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 period | acl |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 style | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 style | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 style | det |
| 15 | vigorous | vigorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 style | amod |
| 16 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broken | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 puffed | obl |
| 19 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 puffed | nsubj |
| 20 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Uncle | flat |
| 21 | puffed | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 style | parataxis |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 puffed | advmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 pipe | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 25 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 puffed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 period | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | a long period | of silence | tree rules | |||
| 2 | break | participle | a long period not said here | by the vigorous style | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by style=Location | ||||
| 3 | puff away | past | Uncle | the vigorous style | at Uncle's pipe; away property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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