Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 3
"Did he kill himself, Uncle Remus?" the little boy asked, with a curious air of concern.
Who acts: Remus, little boy · What happens: kill, ask · To what, where: Remus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Remus, little boy), 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 kill | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kill | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kill | nsubj |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 kill | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Remus | punct |
| 7 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Remus | compound |
| 8 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 kill | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boy | amod |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 air | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 air | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 air | det |
| 18 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 air | amod |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 concern | case |
| 21 | concern | concern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 air | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | past · do-support | Remus | Remus | Uncle Remus obl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the little boy | with a curious air of concern | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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