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title: "Miss Fox, she tuck dis ter be a good idee, en she fotch bofe un um… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "Miss Fox, she tuck dis ter be a good idee, en she fotch bofe un um ter de grinestone, en set um up on it so dat she could groun' off Brer Rabbit nose. Who acts: head, dis ter, en, un um. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 54

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"Miss Fox, she tuck dis ter be a good idee, en she fotch bofe un um ter de grinestone, en set um up on it so dat she could groun' off Brer Rabbit nose.

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**Who acts:** head, dis ter, en, un um · **What happens:** tuck, be, bofe, grinestone, groun · **To what, where:** Miss Fox, good idee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (head, dis ter, en, un um), 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:pg2306:37:54
# text = "Miss Fox, she tuck dis ter be a good idee, en she fotch bofe un um ter de grinestone, en set um up on it so dat she could groun' off Brer Rabbit nose.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tuck	tuck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	idee	idee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	fotch	fotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bofe	bofe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	un	un	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	flat:foreign	_	_
19	um	um	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	nsubj	_	_
20	ter	ter	X	FW	_	22	compound	_	_
21	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	flat:foreign	_	_
22	grinestone	grinestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
31	dat	dat	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	groun	groun	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
36	off	off	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck** *in a quote* | present | head | Miss Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent fox=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | dis ter | a good idee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bofe** *in a quote* |  | en | a good idee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grinestone** *in a quote* |  | un um |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **groun** *in a quote* | could | head |  |  |  |  | off Rabbit nose | tree rules |

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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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