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title: "'I'm fixin fer ter make you a nice cup er tea, Brer Wolf.' — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "'I'm fixin fer ter make you a nice cup er tea, Brer Wolf.' Who acts: Tobacco, fer ter. 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 41

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"'I'm fixin fer ter make you a nice cup er tea, Brer Wolf.'

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**Who acts:** Tobacco, fer ter · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** nice cup er tea, you

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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 (Tobacco, fer ter), 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:pg2306:16:41
# text = "'I'm fixin fer ter make you a nice cup er tea, Brer Wolf.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	fixin	fixin	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fer	f	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	ter	ter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Tobacco |  |  |  |  | f, fixin *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present | fer ter | a nice cup er tea | you |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary tea=Product |

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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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