Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 18
Presently the youngster drew forth from his pocket a long piece of candle.
Who acts: youngster · What happens: draw · To what, where: long piece, pocket
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 (youngster), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 drew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youngster | det |
| 3 | youngster | youngster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 drew | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 pocket | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 8 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obl | ||
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 piece | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 piece | amod |
| 11 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 candle | case |
| 13 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 piece | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the youngster | a long piece of candle | youngster's pocket | forth, presently property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme from pocket=Initial_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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