---
title: "Den Miss Cow, she pull out 'er horn, she did, en tuck atter Brer Ra… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den Miss Cow, she pull out 'er horn, she did, en tuck atter Brer Rabbit, en down de big road dey had it, Brer Rabbit wid his years laid back, en Miss Cow wid 'er head down en 'er tail curl. Who acts: Den, Cow, big road dey, Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandl
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/57/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 57

# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 57

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"Den Miss Cow, she pull out 'er horn, she did, en tuck atter Brer Rabbit, en down de big road dey had it, Brer Rabbit wid his years laid back, en Miss Cow wid 'er head down en 'er tail curl.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Den, Cow, big road dey, Brer, years, en · **What happens:** pull out, do, have, wi, lay back, wid · **To what, where:** horn, en tuck atter, sezee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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, big road dey, Brer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2306:12:57
# text = "Den Miss Cow, she pull out 'er horn, she did, en tuck atter Brer Rabbit, en down de big road dey had it, Brer Rabbit wid his years laid back, en Miss Cow wid 'er head down en 'er tail curl.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	er	er	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	tuck	tuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	atter	atter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
20	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
24	de	de	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	_
37	back	back	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
40	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
41	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	wid	wid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
43	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	er	er	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	_
46	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
47	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
48	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	er	er	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
50	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	curl	curl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull out** *in a quote* | infinitive | Den and Cow | horn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Cow | en tuck atter and en |  |  |  | down *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atter=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | big road dey | sezee |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **wi** *in a quote* | past | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lay back** *in a quote* | past | Dey's years |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wid** *in a quote* |  | en |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/56/)
- next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/58/)
- ↑ back to [IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/12/)