Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 17
"Don't ax me, honey.
Who acts: you · What happens: not ax · To what, where: Miss Meadows
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives 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 (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 | _ | 4 ax | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 ax | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 ax | advmod |
| 4 | ax | ax | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ax | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 honey | punct |
| 7 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ax | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ax | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ax in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | Miss Meadows = meadow | honey obl | 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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