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title: True, my dear Frost; but if you could see the thousands of letters t… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: True, my dear Frost; but if you could see the thousands of letters that have come to me from far and near, and all fresh from the hearts and hands of children, and from men and women who have not forgotten how to be children, you would not wonder at the dream. Who acts: you, letters, men, children. 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 10

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True, my dear Frost; but if you could see the thousands of letters that have come to me from far and near, and all fresh from the hearts and hands of children, and from men and women who have not forgotten how to be children, you would not wonder at the dream.

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**Who acts:** you, letters, men, children · **What happens:** see, come, not forget, be, not wonder · **To what, where:** thousands, me, children, dream

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, letters, men, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:1:10
# text = True, my dear Frost; but if you could see the thousands of letters that have come to me from far and near, and all fresh from the hearts and hands of children, and from men and women who have not forgotten how to be children, you would not wonder at the dream.
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	near	near	ADV	RB	_	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	parataxis	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
42	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
43	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	acl:relcl	_	_
46	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	54	advmod	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	cop	_	_
49	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
52	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	54	advmod	_	_
54	wonder	wonder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	advcl	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could | you | the thousands of letters |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thousand=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | present · perfect | letters |  | me |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location from far=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **forget** | present · perfect | men and women |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **wonder** *speech: ask* | would | children |  |  | the dream |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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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