Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 10
"Tooby sho," replied the old man, with unction, puffing away at his pipe. "
Who acts: Tooby sho · What happens: reply, puff away · To what, where: old man, pipe
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tooby sho), 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 | _ | 3 sho | punct |
| 2 | Tooby | Tooby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sho | compound |
| 3 | sho | sho | NOUN | _ | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sho | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sho | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 unction | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 unction | case |
| 12 | unction | unction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 puffing | punct |
| 14 | puffing | puff | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 replied | advcl |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 puffing | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 pipe | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 18 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 puffing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Tooby sho | the old man and unction | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 2 | puff away | gerund | Tooby sho not said here | man's pipe | away property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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