Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 2

Indeed, Uncle Remus was talking and laughing to himself at such a rate that the little boy was afraid he had company.

Who acts: Uncle Remus, little boy, boy · What happens: talk, laugh, be, have · To what, where: Remus, rate, company

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 (Uncle Remus, little boy, 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 talking	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Remus	compound
4	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 talking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 talking	aux
6	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 laughing	cc
8	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 talking	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 laughing	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 rate	case
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 rate	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 rate	det
14	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laughing	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 afraid	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 boy	amod
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 afraid	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 afraid	cop
20	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rate	acl:relcl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 afraid	ccomp
23	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 talking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	Uncle Remus				indeed property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	gerund	Uncle Remus not said here		Remus	such rate		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	is	past	the little boy	such rate not said here			afraid property	tree rules
4	have	past	boy	company				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=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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