Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 135
"But you cost him an arm," exclaimed Miss Theodosia.
Who acts: you, Miss · What happens: cost, exclaim · To what, where: arm, en · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Miss), 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 | _ | 4 cost | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 cost | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 cost | nsubj |
| 4 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 exclaimed | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cost | iobj |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 arm | det |
| 7 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cost | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cost | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 exclaimed | punct |
| 10 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 exclaimed | obj |
| 12 | Theodosia | Theodosia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Miss | flat |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost in a quote | present | you | a arm | en | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary arm=Value | |||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Miss | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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