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title: Den Brer Rabbit went ter de lookin'- glass, he did, en wink at hisse… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den Brer Rabbit went ter de lookin'- glass, he did, en wink at hisse'f, en den he draw'd de rockin'- cheer in front er de fier, he did, en tuck a big chaw terbacker." Who acts: Den. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, with
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 30

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Den Brer Rabbit went ter de lookin'- glass, he did, en wink at hisse'f, en den he draw'd de rockin'- cheer in front er de fier, he did, en tuck a big chaw terbacker."

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** go, draw, de, rockin, do · **To what, where:** lookin glass, hisse'f, cheer, en tuck

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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 (Den), 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:pg2306:16:30
# text = Den Brer Rabbit went ter de lookin'- glass, he did, en wink at hisse'f, en den he draw'd de rockin'- cheer in front er de fier, he did, en tuck a big chaw terbacker."
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ter	ter	X	FW	_	7	compound	_	_
6	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
7	lookin	lookin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	wink	wink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	hisse'f	hisse'f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	de	de	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
26	rockin	rockin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
29	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	34	compound	_	_
34	fier	fier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	tuck	tuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	chaw	chaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	terbacker	terbacker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Den | lookin glass |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location glass=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | infinitive | den | hisse'f and en den *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hisse'f=Theme |
| 3 | **de** | would · past · do-support | Den *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rockin** | gerund | Den *not said here* | cheer in front er and de fier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | past | den | en tuck |  |  |  | a big chaw terbacker *obl:unmarked* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tuck=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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