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title: A frown gathered on his usually serene brow as he turned his gaze up… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: A frown gathered on his usually serene brow as he turned his gaze upon the child--a frown in which both scorn and indignation were visible. Who acts: frown, scorn. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, with its dependency t
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 4

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A frown gathered on his usually serene brow as he turned his gaze upon the child--a frown in which both scorn and indignation were visible.

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**Who acts:** frown, scorn · **What happens:** gather, turn, be, gaze · **To what, where:** frown, serene brow, gaze

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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 (frown, scorn), 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:pg2306:23:4
# text = A frown gathered on his usually serene brow as he turned his gaze upon the child--a frown in which both scorn and indignation were visible.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	frown	frown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	serene	serene	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	gaze	gaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	frown	frown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
22	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	scorn	scorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	indignation	indignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | participle |  | a frown *not said here* |  | frown's serene brow |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | past | a frown | frown's gaze |  |  |  | upon the child | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gaze=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | both scorn and indignation |  |  | a frown |  | visible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **gaze** |  | frown |  |  |  |  |  | nom gaze «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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