Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 4
A frown gathered on his usually serene brow as he turned his gaze upon the child--a frown in which both scorn and indignation were visible.
Who acts: frown, scorn · What happens: gather, turn, be, gaze · To what, where: frown, serene brow, gaze
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frown, scorn), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 frown | det |
| 2 | frown | frown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 frown | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 brow | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 7 serene | advmod |
| 7 | serene | serene | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brow | amod |
| 8 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gathered | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 turned | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 gaze | nmod:poss |
| 13 | gaze | gaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 child | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 frown | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 frown | det |
| 19 | frown | frown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 child | appos |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 visible | obl |
| 22 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 scorn | det |
| 23 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 visible | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 indignation | cc |
| 25 | indignation | indignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 scorn | conj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 visible | cop |
| 27 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 frown | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | participle | a frown not said here | frown's serene brow | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | a frown | frown's gaze | upon the child | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gaze=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | both scorn and indignation | a frown | visible property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | gaze | frown | nom gaze «act intransitive»: poss=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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