Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 5
"What was the color of the mule that did the hammering?" asked another.
Who acts: mule · What happens: be, do, ask · To what, where: color, hammering · 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 (mule), 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 | _ | 5 color | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 color | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 color | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 color | det |
| 5 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mule | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mule | det |
| 8 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 color | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mule | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hammering | det |
| 12 | hammering | hammering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 did | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 color | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 color | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 asked | flat:foreign |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | the color | of the mule | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | the mule | the hammering | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammering=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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