Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 32

Mr. Huntingdon was reading a newspaper; his wife was crooning softly as she rocked the baby to sleep; and the little boy was endeavoring to show his Aunt Dosia the outlines of Kennesaw Mountain through the purple haze that hung like a wonderfully fashioned curtain in the sky and almost obliterated the horizon.

Who acts: Huntingdon, wife, little boy, purple haze · What happens: read, croon, rock, sleep, endeavor, show · To what, where: newspaper, baby, outlines, Aunt, purple haze, sky

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, wife, little boy, purple haze), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Huntingdon	nmod:desc
2	Huntingdon	Huntingdon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reading	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reading	aux
4	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 newspaper	det
6	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reading	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 crooning	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crooning	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 crooning	aux
11	crooning	croon	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 reading	conj
12	softly	softly	ADV	_	11 crooning	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 rocked	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rocked	nsubj
15	rocked	rock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 crooning	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 baby	det
17	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rocked	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sleep	mark
19	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 baby	acl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 endeavoring	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 endeavoring	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boy	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 boy	amod
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 endeavoring	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 endeavoring	aux
26	endeavoring	endeavor	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 reading	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 show	mark
28	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 endeavoring	xcomp
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 Aunt	nmod:poss
30	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 show	obj
31	Dosia	Dosia	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Aunt	flat
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 outlines	det
33	outlines	outline	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 show	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 Mountain	case
35	Kennesaw	Kennesaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Mountain	compound
36	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 outlines	nmod
37	through	through	ADP	_	40 haze	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 haze	det
39	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 haze	amod
40	haze	haze	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 show	obl
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 hung	nsubj
42	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 haze	acl:relcl
43	like	like	ADP	_	47 curtain	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 curtain	det
45	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	46 fashioned	advmod
46	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 curtain	amod
47	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hung	obl
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 sky	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 sky	det
50	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hung	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 obliterated	cc
52	almost	almost	ADV	_	53 obliterated	advmod
53	obliterated	obliterate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 hung	conj
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 horizon	det
55	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 obliterated	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reading	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	read	past · progressive	Huntingdon Mr.	a newspaper				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newspaper=Topic
2	croon speech: other	past · progressive	Mr.'s wife				softly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rock	past	wife	the baby				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location baby=Theme
4	sleep	to-infinitive	wife not said here	the baby not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	endeavor	past · progressive	the little boy					tree rules
6	show	to-infinitive	the little boy not said here	the outlines of Kennesaw Mountain	boy's Aunt	the purple haze		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent aunt=Recipient outline=Topic
7	hang	past	the purple haze			the sky	like a fashioned curtain	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sky=Location
8	obliterate	past	the purple haze not said here	the horizon			almost property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horizon=Patient

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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