--- title: ONE evening when the little boy, whose nights with Uncle Remus were… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: ONE evening when the little boy, whose nights with Uncle Remus were as entertaining as those Arabian ones of blessed memory, had finished supper and hurried out to sit with his venerable patron, he found the old man in great glee. Who acts: little boy, boy. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/9/1/) [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/) / [VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/9/) / 1 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 1 ONE evening when the little boy, whose nights with Uncle Remus were as entertaining as those Arabian ones of blessed memory, had finished supper and hurried out to sit with his venerable patron, he found the old man in great glee. **Who acts:** little boy, boy · **What happens:** be, finish, hurry out, sit, find · **To what, where:** ONE evening, old man, great glee This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives 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, boy), 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:pg2306:9:1 # text = ONE evening when the little boy, whose nights with Uncle Remus were as entertaining as those Arabian ones of blessed memory, had finished supper and hurried out to sit with his venerable patron, he found the old man in great glee. 1 ONE one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 when when SCONJ WRB _ 15 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 Uncle Uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Remus Remus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 as as ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 entertaining entertaining ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 acl _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 18 Arabian Arabian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 blessed blessed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 26 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 hurried hurry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 29 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 venerable venerable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 patron patron NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 glee glee NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the little boy the little boy the little boy's nights with Uncle Remus's nights with Uncle Remus | | | | | as that Arabian ones of blessed memory; entertaining *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **finish** | past · perfect · passive | | ONE evening | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hurry out** | participle | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **sit** | to-infinitive | | | | | | with boy's venerable patron | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **find** | past | boy | the old man | | great glee | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | 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: [V. the Story of the Deluge a…, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/8/34/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/9/2/) - ↑ back to [VI. 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