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title: Ole Miss Fox, she cut and cut twel down come de tree, but no Brer Ra… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ole Miss Fox, she cut and cut twel down come de tree, but no Brer Rabbit dar. Who acts: Ole Miss Fox. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 47

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Ole Miss Fox, she cut and cut twel down come de tree, but no Brer Rabbit dar.

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**Who acts:** Ole Miss Fox · **What happens:** cut, cut down, come · **To what, where:** Rabbit dar, twel, de tree

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ole Miss Fox), 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:pg2306:37:47
# text = Ole Miss Fox, she cut and cut twel down come de tree, but no Brer Rabbit dar.
1	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	compound	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
17	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **cut** | past | Ole Miss Fox | no Rabbit dar |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **cut down** | past | Ole Miss Fox *not said here* | twel |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset twel=Product |
| 3 | **come** | present | Ole Miss Fox *not said here* | de tree |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=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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