Red envelopes and New Year wishes, sentence 1

The rules: take it with both hands (shuāng shǒu jiē), say thank you with a wish, and don't open it in front of the giver (bié dāngmiàn chāi) — in English families you open presents at once, in many Chinese families you wait.

Who acts: rules, hands, you · What happens: take, shuāng, say, thank, not open, open · To what, where: hóngbāo, shǒu jiē, you, front, presents, English families · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Red envelopes and New Year wishes» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rules, hands, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

neg

teacher

kept the draft

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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