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title: De little Rabbits was mighty skittish, but hit got so dat col' chill… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De little Rabbits was mighty skittish, but hit got so dat col' chills ain't run up Brer Rabbit's back no mo' w'en he heerd Brer Wolf go gallopin' by. Who acts: De little Rabbits, hit, Rabbit, mo w'en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fat
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 18

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De little Rabbits was mighty skittish, but hit got so dat col' chills ain't run up Brer Rabbit's back no mo' w'en he heerd Brer Wolf go gallopin' by.

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**Who acts:** De little Rabbits, hit, Rabbit, mo w'en · **What happens:** be, get, not run up, heer, go · **To what, where:** chills, back, Brer Wolf, gallopin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De little Rabbits, hit, Rabbit, mo w'en), 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:pg2306:16:18
# text = De little Rabbits was mighty skittish, but hit got so dat col' chills ain't run up Brer Rabbit's back no mo' w'en he heerd Brer Wolf go gallopin' by.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	skittish	skittish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	col	col	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	chills	chill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
16	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
23	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
25	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
27	w'en	w'en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	heerd	heer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
33	gallopin	gallopin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | past | De little Rabbits |  |  |  |  | skittish *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past | hit | dat col's chills |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chill=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **run up** | present | De little Rabbits *not said here* | Brer's back |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme back=Trajectory |
| 4 | **heer** | past | Rabbit | Brer Wolf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | present | no mo w'en | gallopin |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gallopin=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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