Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 9
"W'en Brer Fox fine Brer Rabbit mixt up wid de Tar-Baby, he feel mighty good, en he roll on de groun' en laff.
Who acts: W'en · What happens: fine, feel, roll · To what, where: Brer Rabbit, en, de groun
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: who acts (W'en), 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 | _ | 2 W'en | punct |
| 2 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fine | nsubj |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 W'en | flat |
| 4 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 W'en | flat |
| 5 | fine | fine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Rabbit | compound |
| 7 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fine | obj |
| 8 | mixt | mixt | PROPN | _ | 5 fine | parataxis |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 mixt | compound:prt |
| 10 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 de | amod |
| 11 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mixt | flat |
| 12 | Tar | Tar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 de | flat |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Baby | punct |
| 14 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 de | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 feel | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 feel | nsubj |
| 17 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fine | parataxis |
| 18 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 good | amod |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feel | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 en | punct |
| 21 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feel | conj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 roll | nsubj |
| 23 | roll | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 21 en | acl:relcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 groun | case |
| 25 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 groun | amod |
| 26 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 roll | obl |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 laff | punct |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 laff | compound |
| 29 | laff | laff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 groun | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fine in a quote | past | W'en | Brer Rabbit | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | feel in a quote | infinitive | w'en | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | roll in a quote | present | w'en | en not said here | de groun and en laff | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent en=Theme on groun=Trajectory |
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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