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title: There is another version in which the impertinent gosling goes to te… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: There is another version in which the impertinent gosling goes to tell the fox something her mother has said, and is caught; and there may be other versions. Who acts: version, impertinent gosling, mother. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 77

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There is another version in which the impertinent gosling goes to tell the fox something her mother has said, and is caught; and there may be other versions.

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**Who acts:** version, impertinent gosling, mother · **What happens:** be, go, tell, say, catch · **To what, where:** version, something, other versions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (version, impertinent gosling, mother), 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:pg2306:22:77
# text = There is another version in which the impertinent gosling goes to tell the fox something her mother has said, and is caught; and there may be other versions.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	impertinent	impertinent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	gosling	gosling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | another version |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present | the impertinent gosling |  |  | another version |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the impertinent gosling *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | gosling's mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **catch** | present · passive | the impertinent gosling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |
| 6 | **is a** | infinitive | another version *not said here* | other versions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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