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title: Involuntarily the hand of the little boy went up to his face, and he… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Involuntarily the hand of the little boy went up to his face, and he scrubbed the end of his nose with his coat-sleeve. Who acts: hand. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 6

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Involuntarily the hand of the little boy went up to his face, and he scrubbed the end of his nose with his coat-sleeve.

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**Who acts:** hand · **What happens:** go up, scrub · **To what, where:** end

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand), 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:pg2306:25:6
# text = Involuntarily the hand of the little boy went up to his face, and he scrubbed the end of his nose with his coat-sleeve.
1	Involuntarily	involuntarily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	scrubbed	scrub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | the hand of the little boy |  |  |  |  | to hand's face; involuntarily *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **scrub** | past | hand | the end of hand's nose |  |  |  | with hand's coat sleeve | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent end=Source |

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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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