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title: "En den he crope off down de fence, Brer Rabbit did, en bimeby here… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "En den he crope off down de fence, Brer Rabbit did, en bimeby here he come--lippity-clippity, clippity-lippity--des a sailin' down de big road. Who acts: En den, den. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, with its 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 48

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"En den he crope off down de fence, Brer Rabbit did, en bimeby here he come--lippity-clippity, clippity-lippity--des a sailin' down de big road.

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**Who acts:** En den, den · **What happens:** crope off, come · **To what, where:** de fence, lippity

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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 (En den, den), 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:pg2306:12:48
# text = "En den he crope off down de fence, Brer Rabbit did, en bimeby here he come--lippity-clippity, clippity-lippity--des a sailin' down de big road.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	crope	crope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
9	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	bimeby	bimeby	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	lippity	lippity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	clippity	clippity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	clippity	clippity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	lippity	lippity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	des	des	X	FW	_	31	compound	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sailin	sailin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
33	down	down	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	de	de	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crope off** *in a quote* | infinitive | En den | de fence |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | past · do-support | den | lippity and clippity and clippity lippity |  |  |  | a des sailin *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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