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title: Here the old man paused and glanced at the little boy, but it was ev… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Here the old man paused and glanced at the little boy, but it was evident that the youngster had become so accustomed to the marvelous developments of Uncle Remus's stories, that the extraordinary statement made no unusual impression upon him. Who acts: old man, tail, youngster, extraordinary statem
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail, sentence 2

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Here the old man paused and glanced at the little boy, but it was evident that the youngster had become so accustomed to the marvelous developments of Uncle Remus's stories, that the extraordinary statement made no unusual impression upon him.

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**Who acts:** old man, tail, youngster, extraordinary statement · **What happens:** pause, glance, be, become, accustom, make · **To what, where:** unusual impression, stories

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXV. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, tail, youngster, extraordinary statement), 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:pg2306:28:2
# text = Here the old man paused and glanced at the little boy, but it was evident that the youngster had become so accustomed to the marvelous developments of Uncle Remus's stories, that the extraordinary statement made no unusual impression upon him.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	glanced	glance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	evident	evident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	youngster	youngster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	developments	development	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
39	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	41	det	_	_
40	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	impression	impression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | past | the old man |  |  | here |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **glance** | past | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the little boy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at boy=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | tail |  |  |  |  | evident *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **become** | past · perfect | the youngster |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **accustom** | participle | the youngster *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the marvelous developments of Uncle Remus's stories | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | past | the extraordinary statement | no unusual impression |  |  |  | upon Remus | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product |
| 7 | **develop** |  |  | Uncle Remus's stories |  |  |  |  | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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