Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 2
What's the matter, Uncle Remus?" the youngster asked. "
Who acts: youngster · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: matter
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngster), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 matter | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 matter | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 matter | det |
| 4 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Remus | punct |
| 6 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Remus | compound |
| 7 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 matter | appos |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 Remus | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Remus | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youngster | det |
| 11 | youngster | youngster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | the youngster | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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