Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 8

Aunt Kate at de gate; I want to eat, she fry de meat en gimme skin, w'ich I fling it back agin.

Who acts: I, hanspike, meat en · What happens: want, eat, fry, skin, fling · To what, where: en

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 (I, hanspike, meat en), 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	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Kate	Kate	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Aunt	appos
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 gate	case
4	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gate	amod
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Aunt	nmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Aunt	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 want	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fry	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fry	nsubj
13	fry	fry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	obj
14	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 fry	flat:foreign
15	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 en	compound
16	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 skin	nsubj
17	gimme	gimme	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 skin	compound
18	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fry	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 w'ich	punct
20	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 skin	conj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 fling	nsubj
22	fling	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 skin	acl:relcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fling	obj
24	back	back	ADV	_	25 agin	advmod
25	agin	agin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fling	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Aunt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fry		hanspike			tree rules
4	skin		meat en			tree rules
5	fling	present	I	en	agin obl	vn throw-17.1-1 «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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