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title: He stood towering above her, his hat in one hand, a carriage-whip in… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He stood towering above her, his hat in one hand, a carriage-whip in the other, and an expectant smile lighting up his rugged face. Who acts: brother, expectant smile. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War, with its dependency tree and the
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 10

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He stood towering above her, his hat in one hand, a carriage-whip in the other, and an expectant smile lighting up his rugged face.

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**Who acts:** brother, expectant smile · **What happens:** stand, tower, light up · **To what, where:** expectant smile, hat, rugged face

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, expectant smile), 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:pg2306:46:10
# text = He stood towering above her, his hat in one hand, a carriage-whip in the other, and an expectant smile lighting up his rugged face.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	towering	tower	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	above	above	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	expectant	expectant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
25	lighting	light	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	rugged	rugged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | brother | a expectant smile |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tower** | gerund | brother *not said here* | brother's hat in one hand |  |  |  | above Vermont | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above she=Location |
| 3 | **light up** | gerund | a expectant smile *not said here* | brother's rugged face |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Product |

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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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