Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 1
WHEN Uncle Remus put in an appearance one morning recently, his friends knew he had been in trouble.
Who acts: Uncle, friends · What happens: put, know, be · To what, where: appearance, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle, friends), 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 | WHEN | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 put | advmod |
| 2 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 3 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Uncle | flat |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 knew | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 appearance | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 appearance | det |
| 7 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 morning | nummod |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 trouble | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 trouble | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 trouble | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 trouble | case |
| 19 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knew | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Uncle | a appearance | morning | recently property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in appearance=Destination | ||
| 2 | know | past | Uncle's friends | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | Uncle | trouble | 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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