Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 53
"'Ef you please, ma'am, Miss Fox, lay me on de grinestone en groun off my nose so I can't smell no mo' w'en I'm dead.'
Who acts: Ef, Den · What happens: lay, not smell, be · To what, where: Den, de grinestone, mo w'en
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 (Ef, Den), 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 | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ef | punct |
| 3 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 Ef | appos |
| 5 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 7 ma'am | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ma'am | punct |
| 7 | ma'am | ma'am | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Ef | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Fox | punct |
| 9 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fox | compound |
| 10 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Ef | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ef | punct |
| 12 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 lay | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 grinestone | case |
| 15 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 grinestone | compound |
| 16 | grinestone | grinestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 17 | en | en | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 groun | compound |
| 18 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grinestone | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 nose | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 nose | nmod:poss |
| 21 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 smell | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 smell | nsubj |
| 24 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 smell | aux |
| 25 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 smell | advmod |
| 26 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lay | advcl |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 w'en | det |
| 28 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 w'en | compound |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 w'en | punct |
| 30 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 smell | obj |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 dead | nsubj |
| 32 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 dead | cop |
| 33 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 w'en | acl:relcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay in a quote | infinitive | Ef | Den | de grinestone and en groun | off my nose | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme on grinestone=Destination | ||
| 2 | not smell in a quote | can | Den | no mo w'en | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer w'en=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Den | no mo w'en not said here | dead property | 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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