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title: "W'en Brer Fox fine Brer Rabbit mixt up wid de Tar-Baby, he feel mig… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "W'en Brer Fox fine Brer Rabbit mixt up wid de Tar-Baby, he feel mighty good, en he roll on de groun' en laff. Who acts: W'en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 9

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"W'en Brer Fox fine Brer Rabbit mixt up wid de Tar-Baby, he feel mighty good, en he roll on de groun' en laff.

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**Who acts:** W'en · **What happens:** fine, feel, roll · **To what, where:** Brer Rabbit, en, de groun

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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 (W'en), 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:pg2306:7:9
# text = "W'en Brer Fox fine Brer Rabbit mixt up wid de Tar-Baby, he feel mighty good, en he roll on de groun' en laff.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	W'en	W'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	fine	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	mixt	mixt	PROPN	ADD	_	5	parataxis	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
12	Tar	Tar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Baby	Baby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
18	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	roll	roll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	groun	groun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
28	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	laff	laff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fine** *in a quote* | past | W'en |  | Brer Rabbit |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient |
| 2 | **feel** *in a quote* | infinitive | w'en |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **roll** *in a quote* | present | w'en | en *not said here* |  | de groun and en laff |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent en=Theme on groun=Trajectory |

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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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