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title: "Den Brer Rabbit went down inter de cellar en fotch out all his chil… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Den Brer Rabbit went down inter de cellar en fotch out all his chilluns. 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 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 48

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"Den Brer Rabbit went down inter de cellar en fotch out all his chilluns.

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** go down · **To what, where:** inter

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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:pg2306:16:48
# text = "Den Brer Rabbit went down inter de cellar en fotch out all his chilluns.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	inter	inter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fotch	fotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** *in a quote* | past | Den | inter and de en fotch |  |  |  | den's chilluns *obl:unmarked*; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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