Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 58

"And was that the last of the Rabbit, too, Uncle Remus?" the little boy asked, with something like a sigh.

Who acts: last little boy · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: something · 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 (last 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	_	6 last	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 last	cc
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 last	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 last	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 last	det
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boy	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Rabbit	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rabbit	det
9	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 last	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Remus	punct
11	too	too	ADV	_	14 Remus	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Remus	punct
13	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Remus	compound
14	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 last	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 last	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 last	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boy	amod
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asked	nsubj
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 something	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 something	case
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 asked	obj
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 sigh	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sigh	det
26	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 something	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past						of the Rabbit; Uncle Remus obl; last property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	the last little boy	something				like a sigh	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Recipient

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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