Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 30

He knew that Chi Hsiao Tang would probably be promoted as he was a man of such ability, and he feared that the story of the poem would in some way reach the ears of the Emperor.

Who acts: Yen, story · What happens: know, promote, be, fear, reach · To what, where: Hsiao Tang, ears, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Yen, story), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 promoted	mark
4	Chi	Chi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Hsiao	compound
5	Hsiao	Hsiao	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Tang	compound
6	Tang	Tang	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 promoted	nsubj:pass
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 promoted	aux
8	probably	probably	ADV	_	10 promoted	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 promoted	aux:pass
10	promoted	promote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 knew	ccomp
11	as	as	ADP	_	15 man	case
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 man	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 man	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 promoted	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 ability	case
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ability	amod
18	ability	ability	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 feared	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 feared	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 feared	nsubj
22	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 reach	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 story	det
25	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reach	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 poem	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 poem	det
28	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 story	nmod
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 reach	aux
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 way	case
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 way	det
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reach	obl
33	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 feared	ccomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ears	det
35	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 reach	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 Emperor	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Emperor	det
38	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 ears	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	Yen				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	promote	would · passive		Hsiao Tang		probably property	vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	past	Yen			as a man; of such ability	tree rules
4	fear	past	Yen				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	reach	would	the story of the poem	the ears of the Emperor	some way		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 30

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 30