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description: The seance was over; but, before the little boy went into the "big house," Uncle Remus laid his rough hand tenderly on the child's shoulder, and remarked, in a confidential tone: Who acts: seance, Uncle. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 57

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The seance was over; but, before the little boy went into the "big house," Uncle Remus laid his rough hand tenderly on the child's shoulder, and remarked, in a confidential tone:

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**Who acts:** seance, Uncle · **What happens:** be, go, lay, remark · **To what, where:** big house, rough hand, shoulder, confidential tone

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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 (seance, Uncle), 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:pg2306:10:57
# text = The seance was over; but, before the little boy went into the "big house," Uncle Remus laid his rough hand tenderly on the child's shoulder, and remarked, in a confidential tone:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	seance	seance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
20	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	confidential	confidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the seance |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past |  |  |  | the big house | before the little boy |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lay** | past | Uncle | Uncle's rough hand |  | the child's shoulder |  | tenderly *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on shoulder=Destination |
| 4 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  | a confidential tone |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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