Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 32
"And it happened, did it?" asked some one in the group surrounding the old man.
Who acts: it, group · What happens: happen, do, ask, surround · To what, where: happ'n, one, group, old man · 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 (it, group), 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 | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 happened | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 did | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 group | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 group | det |
| 15 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 group | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 surrounding | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | happ'n | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | some one | the group | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | surround | gerund | the group not said here | the old man | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Co-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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