Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 37
The little boy laughed, and Uncle Remus supplemented this indorsement of his descriptive powers with a most infectious chuckle.
Who acts: little boy, Uncle · What happens: laugh, supplement, indorse · To what, where: indorsement, descriptive powers
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 (little boy, Uncle), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 supplemented | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 supplemented | cc |
| 7 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 supplemented | nsubj |
| 8 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Uncle | flat |
| 9 | supplemented | supplement | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 laughed | conj |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 indorsement | det |
| 11 | indorsement | indorsement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 supplemented | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 powers | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 powers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | descriptive | descriptive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 powers | amod |
| 15 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 indorsement | nmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 chuckle | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 chuckle | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 infectious | advmod |
| 19 | infectious | infectious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 chuckle | amod |
| 20 | chuckle | chuckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 powers | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the little boy | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | supplement | participle | Uncle | this indorsement of en's descriptive powers with a infectious chuckle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | indorse | en's descriptive powers with a infectious chuckle | nom indorsement «communication 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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