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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 32

Den de man say he'll cut 'er open en see, en den he whirl in, en twan't no time 'fo' he had 'er intruls spread out.

Who acts: Den man, man, open en, en, intruls · What happens: say, cut, see, whirl, have, spread out · To what, where: en den · 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 (Den man, man, open en, en), 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

compoundflat:foreignnsubjnsubjauxccomppunctdiscourseamodnsubjconjpunctcompoundoblnsubjparataxisadvmodpunctcompoundconjadvmoddetobl:unmarkedpunctmarkpunctnsubjadvclpunctadvmodnsubjconjcompound:prtpunctrootDenPROPNdeXmanNOUNsayVERBhePRON'llAUXcutVERB'PUNCTerINTJopenADJenNOUNseeVERB,PUNCTenNOUNdenNOUNhePRONwhirlVERBinADV,PUNCTenNOUNtwaNOUNn'tPARTnoDETtimeNOUN'PUNCTfoADP'PUNCThePRONhadVERB'PUNCTerADVintrulsNOUNspreadVERBoutADP.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DenDenPROPNNumber=Sing3 mancompound
2dedeXForeign=Yes1 Denflat:foreign
3manmanNOUNNumber=Sing4 saynsubj
4saysayVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 cutnsubj
6'llwillAUXVerbForm=Fin7 cutaux
7cutcutVERBVerbForm=Inf4 sayccomp
8''PUNCT_12 seepunct
9ererINTJ_12 seediscourse
10openopenADJDegree=Pos11 enamod
11enenNOUNNumber=Sing12 seensubj
12seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf7 cutconj
13,,PUNCT_15 denpunct
14enenNOUNNumber=Sing15 dencompound
15dendenNOUNNumber=Sing12 seeobl
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 whirlnsubj
17whirlwhirlVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 seeparataxis
18ininADV_17 whirladvmod
19,,PUNCT_21 twapunct
20enenNOUNNumber=Sing21 twacompound
21twatwaNOUNNumber=Sing17 whirlconj
22n'tnotPARTPolarity=Neg24 timeadvmod
23nonoDETPronType=Neg24 timedet
24timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing21 twaobl:unmarked
25''PUNCT_24 timepunct
26foforADPAbbr=Yes29 hadmark
27''PUNCT_29 hadpunct
28hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 hadnsubj
29hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 timeadvcl
30''PUNCT_33 spreadpunct
31ererADV_33 spreadadvmod
32intrulsintrulNOUNNumber=Plur33 spreadnsubj
33spreadspreadVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin29 hadconj
34outoutADP_33 spreadcompound:prt
35..PUNCT_4 saypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertinfinitiveDen manvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2cutfuturemanvn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3seeinfinitiveopen enen denvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4whirlpresentenvn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5havepastenvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6spread outpresentintrulsvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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