Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 33

"'Bred en bawn in a brier-patch, Brer Fox--bred en bawn in a brier-patch!' en wid dat he skip out des ez lively ez a cricket in de embers."

Who acts: Bred en bawn, Brer · What happens: breed, skip out · To what, where: en bawn, brier patch, des

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For 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 (Bred en bawn, Brer), 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	_	15 bred	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 bawn	punct
3	Bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bawn	amod
4	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bawn	compound
5	bawn	bawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bred	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 patch	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 patch	det
8	brier	brier	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 patch	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 brier	punct
10	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bawn	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Brer	punct
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bawn	appos
13	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Brer	flat
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 bawn	punct
15	bred	breed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dat	csubj
16	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bawn	compound
17	bawn	bawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bred	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 patch	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 patch	det
20	brier	brier	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 patch	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 brier	punct
22	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bred	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 bred	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 bred	punct
25	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dat	compound
26	wid	wid	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dat	compound
27	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 skip	nsubj
29	skip	skip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 dat	parataxis
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 skip	compound:prt
31	des	des	X	Foreign=Yes	29 skip	obj
32	ez	ez	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 lively	advmod
33	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 cricket	amod
34	ez	ez	X	_	36 cricket	compound
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 cricket	det
36	cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 skip	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 embers	case
38	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 embers	amod
39	embers	ember	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 cricket	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 dat	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 dat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	breed in a quote	participle					tree rules
2	breed in a quote	past	Bred en bawn in a brier patch	en bawn	a brier patch		tree rules
3	skip out in a quote	infinitive	Brer	des		a lively ez cricket in de embers obl	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent des=Agent

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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