Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Race Improvement, sentence 5
"The old man's mind is wandering," said the society editor, smoothing the wrinkles out of his lavender kids.
Who acts: mind, society editor, old man · What happens: wonder, say, smooth, mind · To what, where: wrinkles · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Race Improvement. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind, society editor, old man), 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 | _ | 8 wandering | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mind | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 man | case |
| 6 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wandering | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wandering | aux |
| 8 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wandering | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 wandering | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 editor | det |
| 13 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 editor | compound |
| 14 | editor | editor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 smoothing | punct |
| 16 | smoothing | smooth | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wrinkles | det |
| 18 | wrinkles | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 smoothing | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 kids | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 kids | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 kids | nmod:poss |
| 22 | lavender | lavender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kids | compound |
| 23 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 smoothing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present · progressive | the old man's mind | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the society editor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | smooth | gerund | the society editor not said here | the wrinkles | out mind's lavender kids | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wrinkle=Theme out kid=Source | |||
| 4 | mind in a quote | the old man | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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