Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 48

"En den he crope off down de fence, Brer Rabbit did, en bimeby here he come--lippity-clippity, clippity-lippity--des a sailin' down de big road.

Who acts: En den, den · What happens: crope off, come · To what, where: de fence, lippity

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 (En den, den), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 crope	punct
2	En	En	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 den	compound
3	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crope	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crope	nsubj
5	crope	crope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	advcl
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 crope	compound:prt
7	down	down	ADV	_	5 crope	advmod
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 fence	compound
9	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crope	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 did	punct
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 did	nsubj
12	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Brer	flat
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 en	punct
15	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 did	obj
16	bimeby	bimeby	ADV	_	17 here	advmod
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 did	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 lippity	punct
21	lippity	lippity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 lippity	punct
23	clippity	clippity	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lippity	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lippity	punct
25	clippity	clippity	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lippity	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 clippity	punct
27	lippity	lippity	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lippity	conj
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 sailin	punct
29	des	des	X	_	31 sailin	compound
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 sailin	det
31	sailin	sailin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 down	punct
33	down	down	ADV	_	31 sailin	advmod
34	de	de	ADV	_	33 down	advmod
35	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 road	amod
36	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 down	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crope off in a quote	infinitive	En den	de fence				down property	tree rules
2	come in a quote	past · do-support	den	lippity and clippity and clippity lippity				a des sailin obl	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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