Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 2
One of the children was very young, and the quartet was altogether ragged and forlorn-looking.
Who acts: One, quartet · What happens: be, look
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, quartet), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 young | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 children | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 children | det |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 young | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 young | advmod |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ragged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ragged | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 quartet | det |
| 11 | quartet | quartet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ragged | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ragged | cop |
| 13 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 14 ragged | advmod |
| 14 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 young | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looking | cc |
| 16 | forlorn | forlorn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 looking | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 forlorn | punct |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 ragged | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One of the children | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the quartet | altogether, ragged property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | the quartet not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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