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title: The little boy had no other premature questions to ask, and, after a… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: The little boy had no other premature questions to ask, and, after a pause, Uncle Remus resumed: Who acts: little boy, Uncle. 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 9

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The little boy had no other premature questions to ask, and, after a pause, Uncle Remus resumed:

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**Who acts:** little boy, Uncle · **What happens:** have, ask, resume · **To what, where:** other premature questions

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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 (little boy, Uncle), 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:pg2306:37:9
# text = The little boy had no other premature questions to ask, and, after a pause, Uncle Remus resumed:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	premature	premature	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pause	pause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	resumed	resume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the little boy | no other premature questions |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | the little boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **resume** | past | Uncle |  |  |  | after a pause |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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