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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 21

She took advantage of the opportunity to study the old negro's face closely, her natural curiosity considerably sharpened by a knowledge of the fact that Uncle Remus had played an important part in her brother's history.

Who acts: Huntingdon, knowledge, Uncle · What happens: take, study, sharpen, play · To what, where: advantage, face, natural curiosity, important part, history

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 (Huntingdon, knowledge, Uncle), 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

nsubjobjcasedetnmodmarkadvcldetamodnmod:posscaseobjadvmodpunctnmod:possamodnsubj:passadvmodconjcasedetoblcasedetnmodmarknsubjflatauxacldetamodobjcasenmod:possnmod:posscasenmodpunctrootShePRONtookVERBadvantageNOUNofADPtheDETopportunityNOUNtoPARTstudyVERBtheDEToldADJnegroNOUN'sPARTfaceNOUNcloselyADV,PUNCTherPRONnaturalADJcuriosityNOUNconsiderablyADVsharpenedVERBbyADPaDETknowledgeNOUNofADPtheDETfactNOUNthatSCONJUnclePROPNRemusPROPNhadAUXplayedVERBanDETimportantADJpartNOUNinADPherPRONbrotherNOUN'sPARThistoryNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 tooknsubj
2tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3advantageadvantageNOUNNumber=Sing2 tookobj
4ofofADP_6 opportunitycase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 opportunitydet
6opportunityopportunityNOUNNumber=Sing3 advantagenmod
7totoPART_8 studymark
8studystudyVERBVerbForm=Inf2 tookadvcl
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 negrodet
10oldoldADJDegree=Pos11 negroamod
11negronegroNOUNNumber=Sing13 facenmod:poss
12's'sPART_11 negrocase
13facefaceNOUNNumber=Sing8 studyobj
14closelycloselyADV_8 studyadvmod
15,,PUNCT_20 sharpenedpunct
16herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 curiositynmod:poss
17naturalnaturalADJDegree=Pos18 curiosityamod
18curiositycuriosityNOUNNumber=Sing20 sharpenednsubj:pass
19considerablyconsiderablyADV_20 sharpenedadvmod
20sharpenedsharpenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 tookconj
21bybyADP_23 knowledgecase
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 knowledgedet
23knowledgeknowledgeNOUNNumber=Sing20 sharpenedobl
24ofofADP_26 factcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 factdet
26factfactNOUNNumber=Sing23 knowledgenmod
27thatthatSCONJ_31 playedmark
28UncleUnclePROPNNumber=Sing31 playednsubj
29RemusRemusPROPNNumber=Sing28 Uncleflat
30hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 playedaux
31playedplayVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part26 factacl
32anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art34 partdet
33importantimportantADJDegree=Pos34 partamod
34partpartNOUNNumber=Sing31 playedobj
35ininADP_39 historycase
36herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs37 brothernmod:poss
37brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing39 historynmod:poss
38's'sPART_37 brothercase
39historyhistoryNOUNNumber=Sing34 partnmod
40..PUNCT_2 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1takepastHuntingdonadvantage of the opportunityvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme
2studyto-infinitiveHuntingdon not said herethe old negro's faceclosely propertyvn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Topic
3sharpenparticiple · passivea knowledge of the factHuntingdon's natural curiosityconsiderably propertyvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4playpast · perfectUnclea important partHuntingdon's brother's historyvn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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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