Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 20

Here Uncle Remus paused long enough to pick up a live coal of fire in his fingers, transfer it to the palm of his hand, and thence to his clay pipe, which he had been filling--a proceeding that was viewed by the little boy with undisguised admiration.

Who acts: Uncle, clay pipe, little boy · What happens: pause, pick up, transfer, fill, view, undisguis · To what, where: live coal, fingers, coal, palm, proceeding

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle, clay pipe, little boy), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 paused	advmod
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 paused	nsubj
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Uncle	flat
4	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 paused	advmod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 paused	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pick	mark
8	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 paused	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 pick	compound:prt
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 coal	det
11	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 coal	amod
12	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pick	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 fire	case
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coal	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 fingers	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 fingers	nmod:poss
17	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pick	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 transfer	punct
19	transfer	transfer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 pick	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 transfer	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 palm	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 palm	det
23	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 transfer	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 hand	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 palm	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pipe	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 pipe	cc
29	thence	thence	ADV	_	33 pipe	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 pipe	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 pipe	nmod:poss
32	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pipe	compound
33	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paused	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 filling	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 filling	nsubj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 filling	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 filling	aux
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 filling	aux
39	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 pipe	conj
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 proceeding	punct
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 proceeding	det
42	proceeding	proceeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pipe	conj
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 viewed	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 viewed	aux:pass
45	viewed	view	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 proceeding	acl:relcl
46	by	by	ADP	_	49 boy	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 boy	det
48	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 boy	amod
49	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 viewed	obl:agent
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 admiration	case
51	undisguised	undisguis	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 admiration	amod
52	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 boy	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pause	past	Uncle			here	to Uncle's clay pipe and a proceeding; enough, long property	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	pick up	to-infinitive	Uncle not said here	a live coal of fire		Uncle's fingers		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=Topic
3	transfer	infinitive	Uncle not said here	coal	the palm of Uncle's hand			vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to palm=Recipient
4	fill	past · perfect · progressive	Uncle's clay pipe and a proceeding					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	view	past · passive	the little boy with undisguised admiration	a proceeding				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
6	undisguis	participle						tree rules

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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