Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 9

Something in Uncle Remus's tone exactly fitted all these surroundings, and the child nestled closer to the old man.

Who acts: Something, child, Uncle Remus · What happens: fit, nestle, intonate · To what, where: surroundings

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 (Something, child, Uncle Remus), 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	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 fitted	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 tone	case
3	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Remus	compound
4	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tone	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Remus	case
6	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Something	nmod
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 fitted	advmod
8	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 surroundings	det:predet
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 surroundings	det
11	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 fitted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nestled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 nestled	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 child	det
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nestled	nsubj
16	nestled	nestle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fitted	conj
17	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 nestled	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 man	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nestled	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fitted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fit	past	Something	all surroundings	exactly property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surroundings=Patient
2	nestle	past	the child		to the old man; close property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	intonate		Uncle Remus			nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=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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