Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 32

I want you ter run en fetch de doctor.

Who acts: I, ter · What happens: want, run · To what, where: you, fetch de doctor

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 (I, ter), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 want	obj
4	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 run	nsubj
5	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 want	conj
6	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fetch	compound
7	fetch	fetch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doctor	compound
8	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doctor	compound
9	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	I	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme
2	run	present	ter	fetch de doctor					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme doctor=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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