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title: WHEN "Miss Sally's" little boy went to Uncle Remus the next night to… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: WHEN "Miss Sally's" little boy went to Uncle Remus the next night to hear the conclusion of the adventure in which the Rabbit made a riding-horse of the Fox to the great enjoyment and gratification of Miss Meadows and the girls, he found the old man in a bad humor. Who acts: little boy, Rabbit. A se
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 1

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WHEN "Miss Sally's" little boy went to Uncle Remus the next night to hear the conclusion of the adventure in which the Rabbit made a riding-horse of the Fox to the great enjoyment and gratification of Miss Meadows and the girls, he found the old man in a bad humor.

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**Who acts:** little boy, Rabbit · **What happens:** go, hear, make, find, conclude, gratify · **To what, where:** Uncle Remus, conclusion, riding horse, adventure, old man, bad humor

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, Rabbit), 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:pg2306:10:1
# text = WHEN "Miss Sally's" little boy went to Uncle Remus the next night to hear the conclusion of the adventure in which the Rabbit made a riding-horse of the Fox to the great enjoyment and gratification of Miss Meadows and the girls, he found the old man in a bad humor.
1	WHEN	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	gratification	gratification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	humor	humor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	49	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Miss Sally's little boy |  |  | Uncle Remus | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to remus=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | Miss Sally's little boy *not said here* | the conclusion of the adventure |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer conclusion=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** | past | the Rabbit | a riding horse of the Fox |  | the adventure |  | to the great enjoyment and gratification of Miss Meadows and the girls | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Product |
| 4 | **find** | past | Rabbit | the old man |  | a bad humor |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 5 | **conclude** |  |  | the adventure |  |  |  |  | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **gratify** |  |  | Miss Meadows |  |  |  |  | nom gratification «state transitive»: of=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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