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title: Den he retch out fer ter shake han's, en in he went, heels over head… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Den he retch out fer ter shake han's, en in he went, heels over head, en Brer Tarrypin bubble out: Who acts: Den. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs, sentence 30

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Den he retch out fer ter shake han's, en in he went, heels over head, en Brer Tarrypin bubble out:

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**Who acts:** Den · **What happens:** retch out, shake, go · **To what, where:** fer ter, en, heels, head

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs. 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:pg2306:17:30
# text = Den he retch out fer ter shake han's, en in he went, heels over head, en Brer Tarrypin bubble out:
1	Den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	retch	retch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
8	han	han	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
21	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	bubble	bubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retch out** | infinitive | Den | fer ter |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ter=Theme |
| 2 | **shake** | infinitive |  | han's en |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent en=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | past | Den | heels |  | head |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over head=Initial\_Location |

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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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