Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 9

He seemed to have lost all interest in what was going on around him, and he sighed heavily as he seated himself on the edge of the trash-box in front of the office.

Who acts: Remus · What happens: seem, lose, go on, sigh, seat · To what, where: interest, Remus, edge

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 (Remus), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 lost	mark
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 lost	aux
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 seemed	xcomp
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 interest	det
7	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 what	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lost	obl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 going	aux
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 what	acl:relcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	11 going	compound:prt
13	around	around	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 going	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sighed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sighed	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sighed	nsubj
18	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
19	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	18 sighed	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 seated	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seated	nsubj
22	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sighed	advcl
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 seated	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 edge	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 edge	det
26	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seated	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	31 box	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 box	det
29	trash	trash	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 box	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 trash	punct
31	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 edge	nmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 front	case
33	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 box	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 office	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 office	det
36	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 front	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Remus				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	lose	to-infinitive · perfect	Remus not said here	all interest			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Eventuality
3	go on	past · progressive				around Remus	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around he=Location
4	sigh	past	Remus			heavily property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	seat	past	Remus	Remus	the edge of the trash box in front of the office		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value

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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