Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 54

"Miss Fox, she tuck dis ter be a good idee, en she fotch bofe un um ter de grinestone, en set um up on it so dat she could groun' off Brer Rabbit nose.

Who acts: head, dis ter, en, un um · What happens: tuck, be, bofe, grinestone, groun · To what, where: Miss Fox, good idee · 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 (head, dis ter, en, un um), 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	_	3 Fox	punct
2	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Fox	compound
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tuck	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tuck	nsubj
6	tuck	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 Fox	acl:relcl
7	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ter	compound
8	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 idee	nsubj
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 idee	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 idee	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 idee	amod
12	idee	idee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tuck	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 en	punct
14	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bofe	nsubj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bofe	nsubj
16	fotch	fotch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bofe	compound
17	bofe	bofe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 idee	acl:relcl
18	un	un	X	Foreign=Yes	19 um	flat:foreign
19	um	um	X	Foreign=Yes	22 grinestone	nsubj
20	ter	ter	X	_	22 grinestone	compound
21	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 ter	flat:foreign
22	grinestone	grinestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bofe	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 um	punct
24	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 set	compound
25	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 um	compound
26	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grinestone	appos
27	up	up	ADP	_	22 grinestone	compound
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 up	nmod
30	so	so	ADV	_	34 groun	advmod
31	dat	dat	SCONJ	_	34 groun	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 groun	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 groun	aux
34	groun	groun	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tuck	advcl
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	39 nose	punct
36	off	off	ADP	_	39 nose	case
37	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Rabbit	compound
38	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 nose	compound
39	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 groun	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Fox	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tuck in a quote	present	head	Miss Fox not said here		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent fox=Destination
2	is a in a quote	infinitive	dis ter	a good idee		tree rules
3	bofe in a quote		en	a good idee not said here		tree rules
4	grinestone in a quote		un um			tree rules
5	groun in a quote	could	head		off Rabbit nose	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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