Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 9

Elaborating the incident afterward to her friends, she was pleased to say that the appearance of the old man was somewhat picturesque.

Who acts: Vermont, appearance · What happens: elaborate, be, say · To what, where: incident, picturesque · 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 (Vermont, appearance), 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	Elaborating	elaborate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 pleased	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 incident	det
3	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Elaborating	obj
4	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	1 Elaborating	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 friends	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friends	nmod:poss
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 afterward	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Elaborating	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pleased	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pleased	cop
11	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 pleased	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 picturesque	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 appearance	det
16	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 picturesque	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 man	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 appearance	nmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 picturesque	cop
22	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	23 picturesque	advmod
23	picturesque	picturesque	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	elaborate speech: other	gerund		the incident	afterward property	tree rules
2	is	past	Vermont		pleased property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Vermont not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	the appearance of the old man	picturesque	somewhat property	tree rules

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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