--- title: "En den Brer Rabbit sorter grin, he did, en de gals giggle, en Miss… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "En den Brer Rabbit sorter grin, he did, en de gals giggle, en Miss Meadows, she praise up de pony, en dar wuz Brer Fox hitch fas' ter de rack, en couldn't he'p hisse'f." Who acts: Brer sorter grin, de gals, ez, de pony. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/9/70/) [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/) / 70 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 70 "En den Brer Rabbit sorter grin, he did, en de gals giggle, en Miss Meadows, she praise up de pony, en dar wuz Brer Fox hitch fas' ter de rack, en couldn't he'p hisse'f." **Who acts:** Brer sorter grin, de gals, ez, de pony, en · **What happens:** do, giggle, praise up, hitch, not he'p · **To what, where:** en Miss Meadows, ter, hisse'f 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 (Brer sorter grin, de gals, ez, de pony), 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:pg2306:9:70 # text = "En den Brer Rabbit sorter grin, he did, en de gals giggle, en Miss Meadows, she praise up de pony, en dar wuz Brer Fox hitch fas' ter de rack, en couldn't he'p hisse'f." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 En En PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:desc _ _ 4 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 5 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 sorter sorter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 grin grin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 gals gal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 giggle giggle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 en en ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Meadows meadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 praise praise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 25 compound _ _ 25 pony pony NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 30 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 31 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ _ 32 hitch hitch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 33 fas fa NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ' 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 37 compound _ _ 37 rack rack NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 40 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 41 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 he'p he'p VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 43 hisse'f hisse'f NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Brer sorter grin | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **giggle** *in a quote* | present | de gals | en Miss Meadows | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **praise up** *in a quote* | present | ez | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hitch** *in a quote* | present | de pony and en dar wuz | fas's ter and de rack | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ter=Patient | | 5 | **not** **he'p** *in a quote* | could | en | hisse'f | | | | | tree rules | 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/9/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/9/71/) - ↑ back to [VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/9/)