Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 1

UNCLE REMUS was in good humor one evening recently when he dropped casually into the editorial room of "The Constitution," as has been his custom for the past year or two.

Who acts: UNCLE, he · What happens: be, drop · To what, where: good humor, editorial room

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UNCLE, he), 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	UNCLE	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 humor	nsubj
2	REMUS	REMUS	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 UNCLE	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 humor	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 humor	case
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 humor	amod
6	humor	humor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 evening	nummod
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 humor	obl:unmarked
9	recently	recently	ADV	_	8 evening	advmod
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 dropped	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dropped	nsubj
12	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 humor	advcl
13	casually	casually	ADV	_	12 dropped	advmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 room	det
16	editorial	editorial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 room	amod
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dropped	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 Constitution	case
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Constitution	punct
20	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Constitution	det
21	Constitution	constitution	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 room	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dropped	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 dropped	punct
24	as	as	ADP	_	28 custom	case
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 custom	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 custom	cop
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 custom	nmod:poss
28	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dropped	obl
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 year	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 year	det
31	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 year	amod
32	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 custom	nmod
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 two	cc
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 year	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 humor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	UNCLE	good humor	evening		tree rules
2	drop	past	he	the editorial room of the Constitution		casually property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into room=Trajectory
3	is	present · perfect			year	as his custom	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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