Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 21

En I lay you hatter be monstus sly 'fo' you gotter chance fer ter snatch up dat piece er cannle."

Who acts: I, hatter, you · What happens: lay, be, gotter, snatch up · To what, where: En, chance fer ter, dat piece

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 (I, hatter, you), 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	En	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 lay	obj
5	hatter	hatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 monstus	nsubj
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 monstus	cop
7	monstus	monstus	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lay	xcomp
8	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fo	amod
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 fo	punct
10	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	13 gotter	mark
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 fo	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 gotter	nsubj
13	gotter	gotter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 monstus	advcl
14	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ter	compound
15	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ter	compound
16	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gotter	obj
17	snatch	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 gotter	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 snatch	compound:prt
19	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 piece	amod
20	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 snatch	obj
21	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 cannle	advmod
22	cannle	cannle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 piece	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	present	I	En		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Result
2	is	infinitive	hatter		monstus property	tree rules
3	gotter	present	you	chance fer ter		tree rules
4	snatch up	present	you not said here	dat piece cannle		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme

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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