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title: Here Uncle Remus paused long enough to pick up a live coal of fire i… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Here Uncle Remus paused long enough to pick up a live coal of fire in his fingers, transfer it to the palm of his hand, and thence to his clay pipe, which he had been filling--a proceeding that was viewed by the little boy with undisguised admiration. Who acts: Uncle, clay pipe, little boy. A senten
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 20

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Here Uncle Remus paused long enough to pick up a live coal of fire in his fingers, transfer it to the palm of his hand, and thence to his clay pipe, which he had been filling--a proceeding that was viewed by the little boy with undisguised admiration.

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**Who acts:** Uncle, clay pipe, little boy · **What happens:** pause, pick up, transfer, fill, view, undisguis · **To what, where:** live coal, fingers, coal, palm, proceeding

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle, clay pipe, little 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:pg2306:6:20
# text = Here Uncle Remus paused long enough to pick up a live coal of fire in his fingers, transfer it to the palm of his hand, and thence to his clay pipe, which he had been filling--a proceeding that was viewed by the little boy with undisguised admiration.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	transfer	transfer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	aux	_	_
39	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	proceeding	proceeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	viewed	view	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl:relcl	_	_
46	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl:agent	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	undisguised	undisguis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	amod	_	_
52	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | past | Uncle |  |  | here |  | to Uncle's clay pipe and a proceeding; enough, long *property* | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pick up** | to-infinitive | Uncle *not said here* | a live coal of fire |  | Uncle's fingers |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=Topic |
| 3 | **transfer** | infinitive | Uncle *not said here* | coal | the palm of Uncle's hand |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to palm=Recipient |
| 4 | **fill** | past · perfect · progressive | Uncle's clay pipe and a proceeding |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **view** | past · passive | the little boy with undisguised admiration | a proceeding |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 6 | **undisguis** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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