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title: All this, rattled off at a rapid rate and with apparent seriousness,… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: All this, rattled off at a rapid rate and with apparent seriousness, was calculated to puzzle the little boy, and he slipped into his accustomed seat with an expression of awed bewilderment upon his face. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 10

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All this, rattled off at a rapid rate and with apparent seriousness, was calculated to puzzle the little boy, and he slipped into his accustomed seat with an expression of awed bewilderment upon his face.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** rattle off, calculate, slip, accustom, awe · **To what, where:** All, puzzle, accustomed seat

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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:pg2306:31:10
# text = All this, rattled off at a rapid rate and with apparent seriousness, was calculated to puzzle the little boy, and he slipped into his accustomed seat with an expression of awed bewilderment upon his face.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	rattled	rattle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	apparent	apparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	seriousness	seriousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	calculated	calculate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	awed	awe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	bewilderment	bewilderment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rattle off** | participle · passive |  | All |  |  |  | at a rapid rate | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: subject=Theme at rate=Stimulus |
| 2 | **calculate** | past · passive |  | puzzle |  |  |  | with apparent seriousness | tree rules |
| 3 | **slip** | past | boy |  |  | boy's accustomed seat |  | with a expression of awed bewilderment upon boy's face | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **accustom** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **awe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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