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title: En I lay you hatter be monstus sly 'fo' you gotter chance fer ter sn… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: En I lay you hatter be monstus sly 'fo' you gotter chance fer ter snatch up dat piece er cannle." Who acts: I, hatter, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 21

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En I lay you hatter be monstus sly 'fo' you gotter chance fer ter snatch up dat piece er cannle."

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**Who acts:** I, hatter, you · **What happens:** lay, be, gotter, snatch up · **To what, where:** En, chance fer ter, dat piece

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hatter, you), 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:pg2306:30:21
# text = En I lay you hatter be monstus sly 'fo' you gotter chance fer ter snatch up dat piece er cannle."
1	En	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	hatter	hatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	monstus	monstus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
8	sly	sly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	fo	for	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	13	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gotter	gotter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	snatch	snatch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	dat	dat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	cannle	cannle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | I | En |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Result |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | hatter |  |  |  |  | monstus *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **gotter** | present | you | chance fer ter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **snatch up** | present | you *not said here* | dat piece  cannle |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=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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