Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 72

"Dat ain't all, honey, but 'twon't do fer ter give out too much cloff fer ter cut one pa'r pants," replied the old man sententiously.

Who acts: two, fer ter, much cloff fer ter, old man · What happens: not do, give out, cut, reply · To what, where: one pa'r pants · 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 (two, fer ter, much cloff fer ter, 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	_	3 ai	punct
2	Dat	Dat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ai	nsubj
3	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 all	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 ai	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 honey	punct
7	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ai	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 do	cc
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 two	punct
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 do	nsubj
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 do	advmod
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ai	parataxis
14	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 ter	amod
15	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 give	nsubj
16	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 do	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 give	compound:prt
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ter	amod
20	cloff	cloff	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ter	compound
21	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ter	compound
22	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cut	nsubj
23	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 give	parataxis
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 pants	nummod
25	pa'r	pa'r	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pants	compound
26	pants	pants	NOUN	Number=Ptan	23 cut	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 replied	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 replied	punct
29	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 do	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 man	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	amod
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 replied	obj
33	sententiously	sententiously	ADV	_	29 replied	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ai	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not do in a quote	infinitive	two			tree rules
2	give out in a quote	present	fer ter			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	cut in a quote	past	much cloff fer ter	one pa'r pants		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pants=Product
4	reply speech: assert	past	the old man		sententiously property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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