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title: And so I feel my heart fluttering and my lips trembling, and I have… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: And so I feel my heart fluttering and my lips trembling, and I have to how silently and him away, and hurry back into the obscurity that fits me best. Who acts: I, lips, obscurity. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:, with its dependency tree a
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 7

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And so I feel my heart fluttering and my lips trembling, and I have to how silently and him away, and hurry back into the obscurity that fits me best.

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**Who acts:** I, lips, obscurity · **What happens:** feel, flutter, tremble, have, hurry back, fit · **To what, where:** heart, obscurity, me

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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 (I, lips, obscurity), 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:pg2306:1:7
# text = And so I feel my heart fluttering and my lips trembling, and I have to how silently and him away, and hurry back into the obscurity that fits me best.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	xcomp	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	conj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	hurry	hurry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	obscurity	obscurity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | infinitive | I | my heart |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
| 2 | **flutter** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tremble** | gerund | my lips |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  | away, silently *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hurry back** | infinitive |  |  |  | the obscurity |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into obscurity=Destination |
| 6 | **fit** | present | the obscurity | me |  |  |  | well *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |

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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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