Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 2

He had a red cotton handkerchief tied under his chin, and the genial humor that usually makes his aged face its dwelling-place had given way to an expression of grim melancholy.

Who acts: Uncle, genial humor · What happens: have, tie, make, give · To what, where: red cotton handkerchief, chin, aged face, genial humor

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle, genial humor), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 handkerchief	det
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 handkerchief	amod
5	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handkerchief	compound
6	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 handkerchief	acl
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 chin	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 chin	nmod:poss
10	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tied	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 given	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 given	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 humor	det
14	genial	genial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 humor	amod
15	humor	humor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 given	nsubj:pass
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 makes	nsubj
17	usually	usually	ADV	_	18 makes	advmod
18	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 humor	acl:relcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 face	nmod:poss
20	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 face	amod
21	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 makes	obj
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 place	nmod:poss
23	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 place	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 dwelling	punct
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 makes	obj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 given	aux
27	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 given	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 expression	case
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 expression	det
31	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 given	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 melancholy	case
33	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 melancholy	amod
34	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 expression	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Uncle	a red cotton handkerchief			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient
2	tie	participle		a red cotton handkerchief not said here	Uncle's chin		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	make	present	the genial humor	Uncle's aged face		usually property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset face=Beneficiary place=Product
4	give	past · perfect · passive		the genial humor		to a expression of grim melancholy	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient way=Theme

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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