Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 70
"Oh, I wasn't asleep," the little boy replied. "
Who acts: little boy · What happens: not be, reply · 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 (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 | _ | 7 asleep | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 asleep | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 asleep | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asleep | cop |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 asleep | advmod |
| 7 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boy | amod |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asleep | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asleep | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 asleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | past | the little boy = boy | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the little boy | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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