--- title: The child's eyes filled with tears and his lips began to quiver, but… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: The child's eyes filled with tears and his lips began to quiver, but he said nothing; whereupon Uncle Remus immediately melted. Who acts: eyes, man, Uncle. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/) / 17 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 17 The child's eyes filled with tears and his lips began to quiver, but he said nothing; whereupon Uncle Remus immediately melted. **Who acts:** eyes, man, Uncle · **What happens:** fill, begin, quiver, say, melt · **To what, where:** eyes, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (eyes, man, Uncle), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2306:23:17 # text = The child's eyes filled with tears and his lips began to quiver, but he said nothing; whereupon Uncle Remus immediately melted. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 5 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 quiver quiver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 whereupon whereupon ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 21 Uncle Uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 Remus Remus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ _ 23 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 melted melt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** | participle | | the child's eyes *not said here* | | | | with tears and man's lips | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tear=Instrument | | 2 | **begin** | past | the child's eyes | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **quiver** | to-infinitive | the child's eyes *not said here* | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man | nothing | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | | 5 | **melt** | past | Uncle | | | | | immediately, whereupon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/18/) - ↑ back to [XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/23/)