Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 6
"Uncle Remus, did the Rabbit have to go clean away when he got loose from the Tar-Baby?"
Who acts: Uncle, Rabbit · What happens: do, have, go away, get · To what, where: Tar Baby · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Rabbit), 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 did | punct |
| 2 | Uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 3 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Uncle | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Uncle | punct |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Rabbit | det |
| 7 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 have | xcomp |
| 11 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 go | xcomp |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 got | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | advcl |
| 16 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 15 got | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 Baby | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Baby | det |
| 19 | Tar | Tar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Baby | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Tar | punct |
| 21 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | Uncle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the Rabbit | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go away in a quote | to-infinitive | the Rabbit not said here | away, clean property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | past | Rabbit | the Tar Baby | loose property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from baby=Destination |
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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