Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 4
"Hol' on dar, honey!" the old man exclaimed, with a great affectation of alarm; "hol' on dar!
Who acts: Hol · What happens: exclaim · To what, where: hol, dar
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 (Hol), 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 | _ | 2 Hol | punct |
| 2 | Hol | Hol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hol | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 dar | case |
| 5 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hol | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 honey | punct |
| 7 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hol | appos |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 honey | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 honey | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 13 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 affectation | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 affectation | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 affectation | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 affectation | amod |
| 18 | affectation | affectation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exclaimed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 alarm | case |
| 20 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 affectation | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 hol | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 hol | punct |
| 23 | hol | hol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exclaimed | obl |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 hol | punct |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 dar | case |
| 26 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exclaimed | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Hol on dar | hol | dar | with a great affectation of alarm | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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