Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 90
He answered gravely, “You shall see me sit on the bench and rise in the air,” and before she realized what had befallen her, he was rising into space and was soon beyond her sight.
Who acts: teacher, You, wife · What happens: answer, see, sit, rise, realize, befall · To what, where: teacher, bench, air, wife, space · 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 (teacher, You, wife), 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 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 2 answered | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 answered | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 see | obj |
| 10 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 see | xcomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 bench | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bench | det |
| 13 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sit | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rise | cc |
| 15 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rise | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rise | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 rise | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 rising | cc |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 24 realized | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 realized | nsubj |
| 24 | realized | realize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 rising | advcl |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 befallen | aux |
| 27 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 realized | ccomp |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 befallen | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 realized | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 rising | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 rising | aux |
| 32 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 rise | conj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 space | case |
| 34 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rising | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 sight | cc |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 sight | cop |
| 37 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 sight | advmod |
| 38 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 40 sight | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 sight | nmod:poss |
| 40 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rise | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | teacher | gravely property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | shall | You | teacher | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit in a quote | infinitive | teacher not said here | the bench | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location | ||||
| 4 | rise in a quote | present | You not said here | the air | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | ||||
| 5 | realize | past | wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | befall | past · perfect · passive | wife | what nsubj:pass | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | rise | past · progressive | teacher | space | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into space=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | is | past | You not said here | beyond wife's sight; wife nmod:poss; soon property | 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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