Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 36

"What's the matter now, Uncle Remus?" inquired Mr. Huntingdon, folding up his newspaper.

Who acts: matter · What happens: be, inquire, fold up · To what, where: matter, Huntingdon, newspaper · 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 (matter), 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	_	12 inquired	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 matter	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 matter	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 matter	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 inquired	nsubj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 matter	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Remus	punct
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Remus	compound
9	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 matter	appos
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 Remus	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Remus	punct
12	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Huntingdon	nmod:desc
14	Huntingdon	Huntingdon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 inquired	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 folding	punct
16	folding	fold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 inquired	advcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 folding	compound:prt
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 newspaper	nmod:poss
19	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 folding	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the matter		now	tree rules
2	inquire speech: other	past	the matter		Huntingdon Mr.		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent huntingdon=Recipient
3	fold up	gerund	the matter not said here	matter's newspaper			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent newspaper=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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