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title: Something in Uncle Remus's tone exactly fitted all these surrounding… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Something in Uncle Remus's tone exactly fitted all these surroundings, and the child nestled closer to the old man. Who acts: Something, child, Uncle Remus. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 9

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Something in Uncle Remus's tone exactly fitted all these surroundings, and the child nestled closer to the old man.

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**Who acts:** Something, child, Uncle Remus · **What happens:** fit, nestle, intonate · **To what, where:** surroundings

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Something, child, Uncle Remus), 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:pg2306:34:9
# text = Something in Uncle Remus's tone exactly fitted all these surroundings, and the child nestled closer to the old man.
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	fitted	fit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	nestled	nestle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | past | Something | all surroundings |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surroundings=Patient |
| 2 | **nestle** | past | the child |  |  |  |  | to the old man; close *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **intonate** |  | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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