Syntax

Syntactic actants

Actant 1: whose eyebrow it is
(a) Genitive
(b) Possessive
Тонкие брови Наташи сердито сдвинулись к переносью. Natasha angrily knitted her thin eyebrows over the bridge of her nose.
Её брови были сильно подведены. Her eyebrows were heavily made up.
NB When the word бровь functions as a subject and does not have a descriptive modifier, the construction бровь у + Genitive is often preferred to (a) and (b), above:
Брови у неё были сильно подведены. Her eyebrows were heavily made up.

Restrictive modifiers

(a) adjectival modifier
левая/правая бровь the left/right eyebrow
Левая бровь у неё была подведена сильнее, чем правая. Her left eyebrow was made up more heavily than her right one.
рассечённая бровь the eyebrow with a cut in it
та бровь, которая была мне видна the eyebrow that was visible to me