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title: Den Miss Cow back off little fudder, she did, en hi'st her tail on '… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Miss Cow back off little fudder, she did, en hi'st her tail on 'er back, en come agin de tree, kerblam! en she come so fas', en she come so hard, twel one 'er her horns went spang thoo de tree, en dar she wuz. Who acts: Den Cow, en, horns. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» b
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 26

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Den Miss Cow back off little fudder, she did, en hi'st her tail on 'er back, en come agin de tree, kerblam! en she come so fas', en she come so hard, twel one 'er her horns went spang thoo de tree, en dar she wuz.

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**Who acts:** Den Cow, en, horns · **What happens:** do, come, go, spang · **To what, where:** en, agin, twel one, thoo

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den Cow, en, horns), 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:pg2306:12:26
# text = Den Miss Cow back off little fudder, she did, en hi'st her tail on 'er back, en come agin de tree, kerblam! en she come so fas', en she come so hard, twel one 'er her horns went spang thoo de tree, en dar she wuz.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fudder	fudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	hi'st	hi'	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	agin	agin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	compound	_	_
25	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	kerblam	kerblam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
29	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
33	fas	fa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	',	',	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
43	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	er	er	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
47	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
48	spang	spang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
49	thoo	thoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
50	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	51	compound	_	_
51	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
55	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	compound	_	_
56	wuz	wuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Den Cow off little fudder | en and Cow's hi'st tail on er |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** | present | en | agin and de tree and kerblam |  |  |  | en *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location agin=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | present | en | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location en=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive | fas's en |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | past | Cow's horns | twel one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **spang** | infinitive | Cow's horns *not said here* | thoo and de tree and en dar and she wuz |  |  |  |  | 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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