Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 5

As a matter of course this vague allusion reminded the little boy of the fact that the wicked Fox was still in pursuit of the Rabbit, and he immediately put his curiosity in the shape of a question.

Who acts: vague allusion, wicked Fox, Fox, course · What happens: remind, be, put, matter · To what, where: little boy, fact, pursuit, curiosity, shape

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 (vague allusion, wicked Fox, Fox, course), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 matter	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 matter	det
3	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reminded	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 course	case
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matter	nmod
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 allusion	det
7	vague	vague	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 allusion	amod
8	allusion	allusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reminded	nsubj
9	reminded	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reminded	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 fact	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fact	det
15	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boy	nmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 pursuit	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Fox	det
18	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Fox	amod
19	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pursuit	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 pursuit	cop
21	still	still	ADV	_	23 pursuit	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 pursuit	case
23	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fact	acl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Rabbit	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Rabbit	det
26	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pursuit	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 put	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 put	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 put	nsubj
30	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	31 put	advmod
31	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 reminded	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 curiosity	nmod:poss
33	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 shape	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 shape	det
36	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 question	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 question	det
39	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shape	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 reminded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remind speech: other	past	this vague allusion		the little boy of the fact			as a matter of course	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
2	is	past	the wicked Fox	the fact not said here		pursuit	still	of the Rabbit	tree rules
3	put	past	Fox	Fox's curiosity		the shape of a question		immediately property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent curiosity=Theme in shape=Destination
4	matter		course						nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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