Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 1

THE next time the little boy sought Uncle Remus out, he found the old man unusually cheerful and good-humoured.

Who acts: little boy, boy · What happens: seek out, find, humour · To what, where: Uncle Remus, old man

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, 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	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sought	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sought	nsubj
7	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Remus	compound
9	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sought	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	7 sought	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sought	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obj
17	unusually	unusually	ADV	_	18 cheerful	advmod
18	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 humoured	cc
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 humoured	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 good	punct
22	humoured	humour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 cheerful	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	seek out	past	the little boy	Uncle Remus	time	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remus=Theme
2	find	past	boy	the old man		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
3	humour	participle	boy not said here			tree rules

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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