Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 9

"Well, I just thought, Uncle Remus," said the little boy, in a tone remarkable for self-depreciation, "that the man had a name."

Who acts: little boy, man · What happens: think, say, have · To what, where: tone, that · Speech: someone speaks here

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, man), 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	_	6 thought	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 thought	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 thought	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 thought	advmod
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
9	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Uncle	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Uncle	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Uncle	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boy	amod
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tone	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 tone	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tone	det
19	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
20	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tone	amod
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 depreciation	case
22	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 depreciation	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 self	punct
24	depreciation	depreciation	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remarkable	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tone	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 tone	punct
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 had	obj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tone	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 name	det
32	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	past	the little boy = boy			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the little boy		a tone	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	past	the man	that		tree rules

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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