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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 10

He stood towering above her, his hat in one hand, a carriage-whip in the other, and an expectant smile lighting up his rugged face.

Who acts: brother, expectant smile · What happens: stand, tower, light up · To what, where: expectant smile, hat, rugged face

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, expectant smile), 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

nsubjxcompcaseoblpunctnmod:possoblcasenummodnmodpunctdetcompoundpunctapposcasedetnmodpunctccdetcompoundoblaclcompound:prtnmod:possamodobjpunctrootHePRONstoodVERBtoweringVERBaboveADPherPRON,PUNCThisPRONhatNOUNinADPoneNUMhandNOUN,PUNCTaDETcarriageNOUN-PUNCTwhipNOUNinADPtheDETotherADJ,PUNCTandCCONJanDETexpectantNOUNsmileNOUNlightingVERBupADPhisPRONruggedADJfaceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 stoodnsubj
2stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3toweringtowerVERBVerbForm=Ger2 stoodxcomp
4aboveaboveADP_5 hercase
5hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 toweringobl
6,,PUNCT_8 hatpunct
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 hatnmod:poss
8hathatNOUNNumber=Sing3 toweringobl
9ininADP_11 handcase
10oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card11 handnummod
11handhandNOUNNumber=Sing8 hatnmod
12,,PUNCT_16 whippunct
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 whipdet
14carriagecarriageNOUNNumber=Sing16 whipcompound
15--PUNCT_14 carriagepunct
16whipwhipNOUNNumber=Sing11 handappos
17ininADP_19 othercase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 otherdet
19otherotherADJDegree=Pos16 whipnmod
20,,PUNCT_24 smilepunct
21andandCCONJ_24 smilecc
22anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 smiledet
23expectantexpectantNOUNNumber=Sing24 smilecompound
24smilesmileNOUNNumber=Sing2 stoodobl
25lightinglightVERBVerbForm=Ger24 smileacl
26upupADP_25 lightingcompound:prt
27hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 facenmod:poss
28ruggedruggedADJDegree=Pos29 faceamod
29facefaceNOUNNumber=Sing25 lightingobj
30..PUNCT_2 stoodpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1standpastbrothera expectant smilevn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2towergerundbrother not said herebrother's hat in one handabove Vermontvn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above she=Location
3light upgerunda expectant smile not said herebrother's rugged facevn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Product

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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