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title: I seem to see before me the smiling faces of thousands of children--… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, D
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 5

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:1:5
# text = 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.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	amod	_	_
9	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	unfriendly	unfriendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
40	among	among	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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.

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**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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