Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 21
Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brierpatch,' sezee.
What happens: not fling · To what, where: me, dat brierpatch
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Roas | roa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sezee | nsubj |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Roas | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Roas | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sezee | punct |
| 5 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fox | compound |
| 6 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sezee | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 Fox | case |
| 8 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sezee | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 sezee | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 fling | cc |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fling | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 fling | advmod |
| 14 | fling | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sezee | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 fling | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 brierpatch | case |
| 17 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brierpatch | compound |
| 18 | brierpatch | brierpatch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fling | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sezee | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 sezee | punct |
| 21 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brierpatch | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sezee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fling | infinitive · do-support | me | dat brierpatch and sezee | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme in brierpatch=Destination |
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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