Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 10

All this, rattled off at a rapid rate and with apparent seriousness, was calculated to puzzle the little boy, and he slipped into his accustomed seat with an expression of awed bewilderment upon his face.

Who acts: boy · What happens: rattle off, calculate, slip, accustom, awe · To what, where: All, puzzle, accustomed seat

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 (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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 rattled	nsubj:pass
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 All	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rattled	punct
4	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 rattled	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 rate	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rate	det
8	rapid	rapid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rate	amod
9	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rattled	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 calculated	cc
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 seriousness	case
12	apparent	apparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seriousness	amod
13	seriousness	seriousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 calculated	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seriousness	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 calculated	aux:pass
16	calculated	calculate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rattled	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 puzzle	mark
18	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 calculated	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boy	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 boy	amod
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 calculated	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 slipped	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 slipped	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 slipped	nsubj
25	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rattled	parataxis
26	into	into	ADP	_	29 seat	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 seat	nmod:poss
28	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 seat	amod
29	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 slipped	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 expression	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 expression	det
32	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 slipped	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 bewilderment	case
34	awed	awe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 bewilderment	amod
35	bewilderment	bewilderment	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 expression	nmod
36	upon	upon	ADP	_	38 face	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 face	nmod:poss
38	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bewilderment	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rattled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rattle off	participle · passive		All		at a rapid rate	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: subject=Theme at rate=Stimulus
2	calculate	past · passive		puzzle		with apparent seriousness	tree rules
3	slip	past	boy		boy's accustomed seat	with a expression of awed bewilderment upon boy's face	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	accustom	participle					tree rules
5	awe	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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