Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 97
Fetch out Miss Dilsey Ann!
Who acts: you · What happens: fetch out · To what, where: Miss
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Fetch | compound:prt |
| 3 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Fetch | obj |
| 4 | Dilsey | Dilsey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Miss | flat |
| 5 | Ann | Ann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Miss | flat |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fetch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch out | imperative | you not said here | Miss | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miss=Theme |
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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