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title: De little Rabbits dey went inter dere hole in de cellar, dey did, li… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: De little Rabbits dey went inter dere hole in de cellar, dey did, like blowin' out a cannle. Who acts: De dey, dey. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 20

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De little Rabbits dey went inter dere hole in de cellar, dey did, like blowin' out a cannle.

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**Who acts:** De dey, dey · **What happens:** go, do out · **To what, where:** inter dere hole, de cellar, blowin

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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 dey, dey), 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:pg2306:16:20
# text = De little Rabbits dey went inter dere hole in de cellar, dey did, like blowin' out a cannle.
1	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	inter	int	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
7	dere	dere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	blowin	blowin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cannle	cannle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | De dey | inter dere hole |  | de cellar |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hole=Theme |
| 2 | **do out** | past | dey | blowin |  |  |  | a cannle *obl:unmarked* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blowin=Eventuality |

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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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