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title: "Tooby sho, honey," replied the old man, regarding the child with ad… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Tooby sho, honey," replied the old man, regarding the child with admiration. " Who acts: Tooby sho. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 3

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"Tooby sho, honey," replied the old man, regarding the child with admiration. "

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**Who acts:** Tooby sho · **What happens:** reply, regard · **To what, where:** old man

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tooby sho), 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:pg2306:14:3
# text = "Tooby sho, honey," replied the old man, regarding the child with admiration. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tooby	Tooby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sho	sho	NOUN	NN	_	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Tooby sho and honey | the old man |  |  |  | regard the child with admiration | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 2 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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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