Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 9
"What did they do, Uncle Remus?" asked the little boy.
Who acts: ter, little boy · What happens: do, uncle, ask · To what, where: Remus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ter, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Uncle | punct |
| 7 | Uncle | uncle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 8 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Uncle | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 boy | amod |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past · do-support | ter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | uncle in a quote | infinitive | ter not said here | Remus | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the little boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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