Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 26

Den Miss Cow back off little fudder, she did, en hi'st her tail on 'er back, en come agin de tree, kerblam! en she come so fas', en she come so hard, twel one 'er her horns went spang thoo de tree, en dar she wuz.

Who acts: Den Cow, en, horns · What happens: do, come, go, spang · To what, where: en, agin, twel one, thoo

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den Cow, en, horns), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Cow	compound
2	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	nsubj
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 Cow	advmod
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 fudder	case
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fudder	amod
7	fudder	fudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Cow	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 en	punct
12	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	obj
13	hi'st	hi'	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 tail	amod
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 tail	nmod:poss
15	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 en	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 er	case
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 er	punct
18	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tail	nmod
19	back	back	ADV	_	10 did	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
21	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	nsubj
22	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 did	conj
23	agin	agin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obj
24	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 tree	compound
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 agin	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 kerblam	punct
27	kerblam	kerblam	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 agin	conj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 en	punct
29	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 come	nsubj
31	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	29 en	acl:relcl
32	so	so	ADV	_	37 come	advmod
33	fas	fa	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 en	nmod:poss
34	',	',	PART	_	33 fas	case
35	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 come	nsubj
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 come	nsubj
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 come	advcl
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 hard	advmod
39	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 come	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 one	punct
41	twel	twel	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 one	compound
42	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 en	appos
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	47 went	punct
44	er	er	SCONJ	_	47 went	mark
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 horns	nmod:poss
46	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 went	nsubj
47	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 one	acl:relcl
48	spang	spang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 went	xcomp
49	thoo	thoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 spang	obj
50	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	51 tree	compound
51	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 thoo	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 dar	punct
53	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 dar	compound
54	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 thoo	conj
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 wuz	compound
56	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 dar	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Den Cow off little fudder	en and Cow's hi'st tail on er		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality
2	come	present	en	agin and de tree and kerblam	en obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location agin=Theme
3	come	present	en	en not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location en=Theme
4	come	infinitive	fas's en		hard property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	past	Cow's horns	twel one not said here		tree rules
6	spang	infinitive	Cow's horns not said here	thoo and de tree and en dar and she wuz		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.

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