Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 39

"And what became of the blacksmith?" the little boy asked, as Uncle Remus paused to snuff the candle with his fingers.

Who acts: little boy, Uncle Remus · What happens: become, ask, pause, snuff · To what, where: candle · Speech: someone speaks here

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, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 became	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 blacksmith	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 blacksmith	det
7	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	nsubj
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 paused	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 paused	mark
16	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Remus	compound
17	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 paused	nsubj
18	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 snuff	mark
20	snuff	snuff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 paused	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 candle	det
22	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 snuff	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 fingers	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 fingers	nmod:poss
25	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 snuff	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become in a quote	past			of the blacksmith	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	the little boy			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pause	past	Uncle Remus			tree rules
4	snuff	to-infinitive	Uncle Remus not said here	the candle	with boy's fingers	tree rules

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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