Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 3

The truth is, Uncle Remus had heard the child coming, and, when the rosy-cheeked chap put his head in at the door, was engaged in a monologue, the burden of which seemed to be--

Who acts: Uncle, child, rosy cheeked chap, burden · What happens: be, hear, come, cheek, put, engage · To what, where: truth, child, head, door, monologue

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 (Uncle, child, rosy cheeked chap, burden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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