Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 21
Then his face fell, for on the corner of the sheet were the name and seal of the writer.
Who acts: face · What happens: fall, be · To what, where: name
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fell | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 face | nmod:poss |
| 3 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 corner | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 corner | case |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 corner | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 corner | det |
| 9 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sheet | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sheet | det |
| 12 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 name | obl |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 name | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 name | det |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 corner | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seal | cc |
| 17 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 name | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 writer | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 writer | det |
| 20 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seal | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | master's face | then | for the corner and the name and seal of the writer | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for corner=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | master's face not said here | the name and seal of the writer | of the sheet; seal of the writer conj | tree rules |
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.
Text: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (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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