--- title: "'Oh, no, dar's de tail, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, en wid… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Oh, no, dar's de tail, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, en wid dat he oncurl his tail fum under de shell, en no sooner did he do dat dan Brer Fox grab it, en holler out: Who acts: de tail, tail, dan Brer Fox. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/15/21/) [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/) / [XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/15/) / 21 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 21 "'Oh, no, dar's de tail, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, en wid dat he oncurl his tail fum under de shell, en no sooner did he do dat dan Brer Fox grab it, en holler out: **Who acts:** de tail, tail, dan Brer Fox · **What happens:** say, oncurl, do out, grab · **To what, where:** Brer, wid dat, de shell, en holler, fum · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (de tail, tail, dan Brer Fox), 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:pg2306:15:21 # text = "'Oh, no, dar's de tail, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, en wid dat he oncurl his tail fum under de shell, en no sooner did he do dat dan Brer Fox grab it, en holler out: 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 10 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 16 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 Tarrypin Tarrypin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 oncurl oncurl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 fum fum NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 under under ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 no no ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 39 advmod _ _ 37 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 40 dat that DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 dan dan NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 42 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 grab grab VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 parataxis _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 holler holler NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 49 out out ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 50 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | dar's de tail and Brer Fox | Brer | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | | 2 | **oncurl** *in a quote* | present | tail | wid dat | | de shell and en | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do out** *in a quote* | past · do-support | tail | en holler | | | | soon *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grab** *in a quote* | present | that dan Brer Fox | fum | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/15/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/15/22/) - ↑ back to [XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/15/)