Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 5
The serious tone of the old man caused the little boy to open his eyes.
Who acts: serious tone · What happens: cause, open, intonate · To what, where: little boy, eyes, old man
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 (serious tone), 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 tone | det |
| 2 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tone | amod |
| 3 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caused | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tone | nmod |
| 8 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boy | amod |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caused | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 open | mark |
| 13 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 caused | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 open | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | the serious tone of the old man | the little boy | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition boy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | the serious tone of the old man not said here | tone's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | intonate | the old man | nom tone «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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