Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 5

I seem to see before me the smiling faces of thousands of children--some young and fresh, and some wearing the friendly marks of age, but all children at heart--and not an unfriendly face among them.

Who acts: I, some · What happens: seem, see, smile, wear, mark · To what, where: children, smiling faces, friendly marks, age

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, some), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 seem	nsubj
2	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seem	xcomp
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 see	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 faces	det
8	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 faces	amod
9	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 thousands	case
11	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 faces	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 children	case
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thousands	nmod
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 young	punct
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 young	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 faces	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fresh	cc
18	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 young	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wearing	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wearing	cc
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 wearing	nsubj
22	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 seem	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 marks	det
24	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 marks	amod
25	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wearing	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 age	case
27	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 marks	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 children	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 children	cc
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 children	det
31	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 seem	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 heart	case
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 children	nmod
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 face	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 face	cc
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 face	advmod
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 face	det
38	unfriendly	unfriendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 face	amod
39	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seem	obl
40	among	among	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 face	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present	I	all children at heart		a unfriendly face among faces obl	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	see	to-infinitive	I not said here	the smiling faces of thousands of children	before me		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	smile	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wear	gerund	some	the friendly marks of age			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mark=Source
5	mark			age			nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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