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title: How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox V. The Story of the Deluge,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox V. The Story of the Deluge, and how it came about VI. Who acts: Rabbit, Deluge. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 4

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How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox V. The Story of the Deluge, and how it came about VI.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, Deluge · **What happens:** be, come about · **To what, where:** VI

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit, Deluge), 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:pg2306:3:4
# text = How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox V. The Story of the Deluge, and how it came about VI.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	V.	V.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Deluge	Deluge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	VI	VI	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Rabbit  Mr. |  |  |  |  | for Fox  Mr.; sharp *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come about** | past | Deluge | VI |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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