Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 7

The little boy never had, but he had heard of them, and he wanted to know what they were, and thereupon Uncle Remus proceeded to tell him.

Who acts: little boy, boy, Uncle · What happens: not have, hear, want, know, proceed, tell · To what, where: Uncle · 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, boy, Uncle), 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 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 had	advmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 heard	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	aux
10	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 had	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wanted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wanted	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wanted	nsubj
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 know	mark
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wanted	xcomp
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 know	obj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 were	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 what	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 proceeded	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 proceeded	cc
24	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	27 proceeded	advmod
25	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 proceeded	nsubj
26	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Uncle	flat
27	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wanted	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 tell	mark
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 proceeded	xcomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tell	iobj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not have	past	the little boy			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past · perfect	boy		of lantern	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of they=Stimulus
3	want	past	boy			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	proceed	past	Uncle		thereupon property	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Uncle not said here	Uncle		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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