Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 6

"I always told the old man that a suburban chicken coop would fall on him," remarked some one.

Who acts: I, chicken coop, one · What happens: tell, fall, remark · To what, where: 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 (I, chicken coop, one), 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 told	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 told	advmod
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 fall	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 coop	det
10	suburban	suburban	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chicken	compound
11	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coop	compound
12	coop	coop	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fall	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fall	aux
14	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fall	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 remarked	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 remarked	punct
19	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 fall	advcl
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 remarked	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	I	the old man	always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
2	fall not said to happen, in a quote	would	a chicken coop		on mule	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location
3	remark speech: assert	participle	some one			vn lecture-37.11-1 «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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