Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 22

"Well, Uncle Remus," the little boy explained, "it was lying there all by itself, and I just thought I'd fetch it out to you.

Who acts: Uncle, hatter · What happens: explain, lie, think, fetch out · To what, where: hatter, you · 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 (Uncle, hatter), 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	_	11 explained	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	11 explained	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 explained	nsubj
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Uncle	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 explained	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 explained	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boy	amod
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 explained	nsubj
11	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lying	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 lying	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lying	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lying	aux
16	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 explained	conj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 lying	advmod
18	all	all	ADV	_	20 itself	advmod
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 itself	case
20	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 lying	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thought	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 thought	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 thought	nsubj
24	just	just	ADV	_	25 thought	advmod
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 explained	conj
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 fetch	nsubj
27	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 fetch	aux
28	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 thought	ccomp
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fetch	obj
30	out	out	ADP	_	28 fetch	compound:prt
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 you	case
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 fetch	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 explained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	past	Uncle					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lie in a quote	past · progressive	hatter			there	by hatter	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by itself=Location
3	think speech: other in a quote	past	Uncle					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	fetch out in a quote	would	Uncle	hatter	you			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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