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title: His head rested against the old man's arm, and he was gazing with an… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: His head rested against the old man's arm, and he was gazing with an expression of the most intense interest into the rough, weather-beaten face, that beamed so kindly upon him. Who acts: head, rough beaten face. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncl
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 3

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His head rested against the old man's arm, and he was gazing with an expression of the most intense interest into the rough, weather-beaten face, that beamed so kindly upon him.

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**Who acts:** head, rough beaten face · **What happens:** rest, gaze, beat, beam · **To what, where:** arm

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, rough beaten face), 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:pg2306:4:3
# text = His head rested against the old man's arm, and he was gazing with an expression of the most intense interest into the rough, weather-beaten face, that beamed so kindly upon him.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	against	against	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	intense	intense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
25	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	beamed	beam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
36	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | past | Sally's head |  |  | the old man's arm |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against arm=Location |
| 2 | **gaze** | past · progressive | head |  |  |  |  | with a expression of the intense interest; into the rough beaten face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme |
| 3 | **beat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **beam** | past | the rough beaten face |  |  |  |  | upon Sally; kindly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |

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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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