Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 2

Making search for him through the house and through the yard, she heard the sound of voices in the old man's cabin, and, looking through the window, saw the child sitting by Uncle Remus.

Who acts: lady, child · What happens: make, hear, look, see, sit · To what, where: search, house, sound, child

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, child), 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	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 heard	advcl
2	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Making	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Making	obl
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Making	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 yard	cc
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 yard	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 yard	det
11	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Making	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	nsubj
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sound	det
16	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 voices	case
18	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sound	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	24 cabin	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cabin	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 man	case
24	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 voices	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 saw	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 saw	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 and	punct
28	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 saw	advcl
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 window	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 window	det
31	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 looking	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 looking	punct
33	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 child	det
35	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 saw	obj
36	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 child	acl
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 Remus	case
38	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Remus	compound
39	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 sitting	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	lady not said here	search	the house and the yard	for Sally	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent search=Product for he=Beneficiary
2	hear	past	lady	the sound of voices in the old man's cabin			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
3	look	gerund				through the window	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme
4	see	past	lady not said here	the child			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
5	sit	gerund	the child not said here			by Uncle Remus	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by remus=Location

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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