Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 5

"Well, you old villain! what have you been up to now?"

Who acts: you · What happens: have up · To what, where: old villain

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	6 villain	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 villain	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 villain	nsubj
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 villain	amod
6	villain	villain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 villain	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 have	obj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 villain	parataxis
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 up	cop
12	up	up	ADP	_	9 have	compound:prt
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 now	case
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 have	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 villain	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 villain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have up in a quote	present	you	old villain					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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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