Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 1

UPON his next visit to Uncle Remus, the little boy was exceedingly anxious to know more about witches, but the old man prudently refrained from exciting the youngster's imagination any further in that direction.

Who acts: little boy, old man, his, youngster · What happens: be, know, refrain, visit, imagine · To what, where: more, exciting imagination

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1. 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, old man, his, 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	UPON	upon	ADP	_	4 visit	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 visit	nmod:poss
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 visit	amod
4	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 anxious	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Uncle	case
6	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 visit	nmod
7	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Uncle	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 visit	punct
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	14 anxious	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 anxious	cop
13	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	14 anxious	advmod
14	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 know	mark
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 anxious	csubj
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 know	obj
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 witches	case
19	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 more	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 refrained	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 refrained	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 refrained	nsubj
25	prudently	prudently	ADV	_	26 refrained	advmod
26	refrained	refrain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 anxious	conj
27	from	from	ADP	_	32 imagination	case
28	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 imagination	amod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 youngster	det
30	youngster	youngster	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 imagination	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 youngster	case
32	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 refrained	obl
33	any	any	ADV	_	34 further	advmod
34	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 refrained	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 direction	case
36	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 direction	det
37	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 further	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 anxious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the little boy			upon his next visit to Uncle; anxious, exceedingly property	tree rules
2	know	to-infinitive		more			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
3	refrain	past	the old man		the youngster's exciting imagination	far, prudently property	vn refrain-69 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent from imagination=Eventuality
4	visit		his = he			to Uncle	nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl
5	imagine		the youngster				nom imagination «cognition 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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