Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 46
"Do they get out of their skins?" asked the little boy, in an awed tone.
Who acts: derse'f, little boy · What happens: get out, ask, awe · To what, where: skins, awed tone · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (derse'f, little boy), 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 | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 skins | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 skins | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 skins | nmod:poss |
| 8 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 boy | amod |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tone | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tone | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tone | det |
| 18 | awed | awe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 tone | amod |
| 19 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out in a quote | infinitive · do-support | derse'f | derse'f's skins | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the little boy | a awed tone | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | awe | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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