--- title: "Miss Cow, she stood dar, she did, en she study en study, en strive… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "Miss Cow, she stood dar, she did, en she study en study, en strive fer ter break loose, but de horn done bin jam in de tree so tight dat twuz way 'fo day in de mornin' 'fo' she loose it. Who acts: Cow, Miss Cow, fer ter, horn. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/42/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rab…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/) / 42 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 42 "Miss Cow, she stood dar, she did, en she study en study, en strive fer ter break loose, but de horn done bin jam in de tree so tight dat twuz way 'fo day in de mornin' 'fo' she loose it. **Who acts:** Cow, Miss Cow, fer ter, horn · **What happens:** stand, do, study, strive, break, loose · **To what, where:** dar, en study, bin jam, de, jam · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Cow, Miss Cow, fer ter, horn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:12:42 # text = "Miss Cow, she stood dar, she did, en she study en study, en strive fer ter break loose, but de horn done bin jam in de tree so tight dat twuz way 'fo day in de mornin' 'fo' she loose it. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ 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 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 study study VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 strive strive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 20 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 23 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 26 de de DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 28 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 jam jam NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 dat dat X GW ExtPos=PROPN 33 appos _ _ 37 twuz twuz ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 flat _ _ 39 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 41 case _ _ 41 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 de de PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 44 mornin mornin NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 46 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 50 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 49 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 50 loose loose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 51 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** *in a quote* | past | Cow | dar | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dar=Stimulus | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Cow | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **study** *in a quote* | present | Miss Cow and en | en study and en | | | | horn tree *obl* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent study=Topic | | 4 | **strive** *in a quote* | infinitive | Miss Cow and en *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **break** *in a quote* | present | fer ter | | | | | loose *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | de horn *not said here* | bin jam | | de | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jam=Eventuality | | 7 | **loose** *in a quote* | past | Cow | jam | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/43/) - ↑ back to [IX. 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