Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 3

His head rested against the old man's arm, and he was gazing with an expression of the most intense interest into the rough, weather-beaten face, that beamed so kindly upon him.

Who acts: head, rough beaten face · What happens: rest, gaze, beat, beam · To what, where: arm

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, rough beaten face), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 head	nmod:poss
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rested	nsubj
3	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	against	against	ADP	_	9 arm	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arm	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 man	case
9	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rested	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gazing	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gazing	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gazing	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gazing	aux
14	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 rested	advcl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 expression	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 expression	det
17	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gazing	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 interest	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 interest	det
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 intense	advmod
21	intense	intense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 interest	amod
22	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 expression	nmod
23	into	into	ADP	_	30 face	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 face	det
25	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 face	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rough	punct
27	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 beaten	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 weather	punct
29	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 face	amod
30	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gazing	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 beamed	punct
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 beamed	nsubj
33	beamed	beam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 face	acl:relcl
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 kindly	advmod
35	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	33 beamed	advmod
36	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 beamed	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	rest	past	Sally's head	the old man's arm		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against arm=Location
2	gaze	past · progressive	head		with a expression of the intense interest; into the rough beaten face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme
3	beat	participle				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	beam	past	the rough beaten face		upon Sally; kindly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location

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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