Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 71

"Is that all, Uncle Remus?" asked the little boy as the old man paused.

Who acts: Uncle Remus, old man · What happens: be, ask, pause · To what, where: Uncle Remus, little boy · 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 Remus, old man), 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	_	7 Remus	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Remus	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 Remus	mark
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 Remus	det
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
6	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Remus	compound
7	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 asked	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 Remus	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Remus	punct
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boy	amod
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 paused	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 paused	nsubj
18	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		all Uncle Remus		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	all Uncle Remus		the little boy	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
3	pause	past	the old man			vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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