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title: Hole too little fer Brer Fox fer ter git in, en he hatter lay down e… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Hole too little fer Brer Fox fer ter git in, en he hatter lay down en res en gedder his mine tergedder. Who acts: en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 33

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Hole too little fer Brer Fox fer ter git in, en he hatter lay down en res en gedder his mine tergedder.

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**Who acts:** en · **What happens:** lie down · **To what, where:** en gedder

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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 (en), 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:pg2306:10:33
# text = Hole too little fer Brer Fox fer ter git in, en he hatter lay down en res en gedder his mine tergedder.
1	Hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	hatter	hatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	res	re	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	compound	_	_
19	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	gedder	gedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	compound	_	_
23	tergedder	tergedder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie down** | past | en | en gedder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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