--- title: "'Skin me, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'snatch out my eyeball… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'Skin me, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'snatch out my eyeballs, t'ar out my years by de roots, en cut off my legs,' sezee, 'but do please, Brer Fox, don't fling me in dat brier- patch,' sezee. Who acts: you, en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/7/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For M…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/7/) / 27 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 27 "'Skin me, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'snatch out my eyeballs, t'ar out my years by de roots, en cut off my legs,' sezee, 'but do please, Brer Fox, don't fling me in dat brier- patch,' sezee. **Who acts:** you, en · **What happens:** skin, say, snatch out, cut off, do, not fling · **To what, where:** Bimeby, Brer, eyeballs, legs, Brer Fox, dat brier patch · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For 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 (you, en), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2306:7:27 # text = "'Skin me, Brer Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'snatch out my eyeballs, t'ar out my years by de roots, en cut off my legs,' sezee, 'but do please, Brer Fox, don't fling me in dat brier- patch,' sezee. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Skin skin VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 10 sez say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 snatch snatch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 eyeballs eyeball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 t'ar t'ar NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 28 nmod _ _ 28 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 32 off off ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 37 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 39 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 42 please please INTJ UH _ 45 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 48 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 49 advmod _ _ 49 fling fling VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 50 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 in in ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 52 dat dat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 53 brier brier NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 54 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 53 punct _ _ 55 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 58 punct _ _ 58 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **skin** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Bimeby | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | Brer | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic | | 3 | **snatch out** *in a quote* | infinitive | | my eyeballs and t'ar | | | year | by roots de and en and sezee | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyeball=Theme | | 4 | **cut off** *in a quote* | participle | en *not said here* | my legs | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector leg=Eventuality | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Brer Fox | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality | | 6 | **not** **fling** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | Bimeby | | dat brier patch and sezee | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme in patch=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/7/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/7/28/) - ↑ back to [IV. 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