Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 20
They came along very quietly and without any disturbance.
Who acts: women · What happens: come along
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Chinese Heroism. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | along | along | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 quietly | advmod |
| 5 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 disturbance | cc |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 disturbance | case |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 disturbance | det |
| 9 | disturbance | disturbance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quietly | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come along | past | women = woman | along, quietly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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