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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 58

Brer Rabbit kep' on gainin', en bimeby he dart in a brier-patch, en by de time Miss Cow come long he had his head stickin' out, en his eyes look big ez Miss Sally's chany sassers.

Who acts: Brer, den, eyes · What happens: kep, dart, come, have out, look · To what, where: gainin en bimeby, head stickin, en

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 (Brer, den, eyes), 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

nsubjflatpunctcasecompounddepcompoundoblnsubjadvclcasedetcompoundpunctoblpunctconjcaseamodoblcompoundconjconjadvmodnsubjadvclnmod:posscompoundobjpunctcompound:prtpunctoblnmod:possnsubjconjamodamodcompoundnmod:posscaseamodobjpunctrootBrerPROPNRabbitPROPNkepVERB'PUNCTonADPgaininNOUN',PARTenNOUNbimebyNOUNhePRONdartVERBinADPaDETbrierNOUN-PUNCTpatchNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNbyADPdeADJtimeNOUNMissPROPNCowNOUNcomeVERBlongADVhePRONhadVERBhisPRONheadNOUNstickinNOUN'PUNCToutADP,PUNCTenNOUNhisPRONeyesNOUNlookVERBbigADJezADJMissPROPNSallyPROPN'sPARTchanyADJsassersNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BrerBrerPROPNNumber=Sing3 kepnsubj
2RabbitRabbitPROPNNumber=Sing1 Brerflat
3kepkepVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4''PUNCT_11 dartpunct
5ononADP_9 bimebycase
6gainingaininNOUNNumber=Sing9 bimebycompound
7',',PART_6 gainindep
8enenNOUNNumber=Sing9 bimebycompound
9bimebybimebyNOUNNumber=Sing11 dartobl
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 dartnsubj
11dartdartVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 kepadvcl
12ininADP_16 patchcase
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 patchdet
14brierbrierNOUNNumber=Sing16 patchcompound
15--PUNCT_14 brierpunct
16patchpatchNOUNNumber=Sing11 dartobl
17,,PUNCT_18 enpunct
18enenNOUNNumber=Sing16 patchconj
19bybyADP_21 timecase
20dedeADJDegree=Pos21 timeamod
21timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing24 comeobl
22MissMissPROPNNumber=Sing23 Cowcompound
23CowcowNOUNNumber=Sing21 timeconj
24comecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin11 dartconj
25longlongADVDegree=Pos27 hadadvmod
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 hadnsubj
27hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 comeadvcl
28hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 stickinnmod:poss
29headheadNOUNNumber=Sing30 stickincompound
30stickinstickinNOUNNumber=Sing27 hadobj
31''PUNCT_30 stickinpunct
32outoutADP_27 hadcompound:prt
33,,PUNCT_34 enpunct
34enenNOUNNumber=Sing37 lookobl
35hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs36 eyesnmod:poss
36eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur37 looknsubj
37looklookVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin27 hadconj
38bigbigADJDegree=Pos44 sassersamod
39ezezADJDegree=Pos44 sassersamod
40MissMissPROPNNumber=Sing41 Sallycompound
41SallySallyPROPNNumber=Sing44 sassersnmod:poss
42's'sPART_41 Sallycase
43chanychanyADJDegree=Pos44 sassersamod
44sasserssasserNOUNNumber=Plur37 lookobj
45..PUNCT_3 keppunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1keppresentBrertree rules
2dartpresentdengainin en bimebyin a brier patch and envn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bimeby=Trajectory
3comepresentden not said heretimevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4have outpastdenden's head stickinlong propertyvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stickin=Patient
5lookpresentden's eyesenvn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sasser=Attribute

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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