Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 3

He was singing when the little boy got near the cabin, and the child paused on the outside to listen to the vigorous but mellow voice of the old man, as it rose and fell with the burden of the curiously plaintive song--a senseless affair so far as the words were concerned, but sung to a melody almost thrilling in its sweetness:

Who acts: boy, little boy, child, words · What happens: sing, get, pause, listen, rise, fall · To what, where: cabin, outside, melody, sweetness, curiously plaintive song

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, little boy, child, words), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 singing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 singing	aux
3	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 got	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 singing	advcl
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 cabin	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cabin	det
11	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 paused	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 paused	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 child	det
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 paused	nsubj
16	paused	pause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 singing	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 outside	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 outside	det
19	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 paused	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 listen	mark
21	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 paused	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	27 voice	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 voice	det
24	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 voice	amod
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 mellow	cc
26	mellow	mellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 vigorous	conj
27	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 listen	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 man	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 voice	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 rose	punct
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 rose	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 rose	nsubj
35	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 listen	advcl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 fell	cc
37	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 rose	conj
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 burden	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 burden	det
40	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fell	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	45 song	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 song	det
43	curiously	curiously	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 song	amod
44	plaintive	plaintive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 song	amod
45	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 burden	nmod
46	--	--	PUNCT	_	49 affair	punct
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 affair	det
48	senseless	senseless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 affair	amod
49	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 song	conj
50	so	so	ADV	_	51 far	advmod
51	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 fell	advmod
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	56 concerned	mark
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 words	det
54	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 concerned	nsubj
55	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 concerned	cop
56	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 far	advcl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 sung	punct
58	but	but	CCONJ	_	59 sung	cc
59	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 paused	conj
60	to	to	ADP	_	62 melody	case
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 melody	det
62	melody	melody	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 sung	obl
63	almost	almost	ADV	_	64 thrilling	advmod
64	thrilling	thrill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	59 sung	advcl
65	in	in	ADP	_	67 sweetness	case
66	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 sweetness	nmod:poss
67	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 thrilling	obl
68	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 singing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	boy					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	get	past	the little boy			the cabin		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	pause	participle	the child			the outside		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on outside=Location
4	listen	to-infinitive	the child not said here				to the vigorous voice of the old man	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to voice=Theme
5	rise	past	child					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fall	past	child not said here				with the burden of the curiously plaintive song and a senseless affair; far property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	the words				concerned property	tree rules
8	sing speech: express	participle	the child not said here		a melody			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to melody=Recipient
9	thrill	gerund	the child not said here			child's sweetness	almost property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
10	burden			the curiously plaintive song and a senseless affair				nom burden «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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