Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 12
It was a wonderful story she told as she poured out her heart to her friend.
Who acts: room, girl · What happens: be, tell, pour out · To what, where: wonderful story, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, girl), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 story | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 story | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 4 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 story | acl:relcl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 poured | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 poured | nsubj |
| 10 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | ccomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 poured | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 friend | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friend | nmod:poss |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 poured | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | room | a wonderful story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | girl | a wonderful story not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent story=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pour out | past | girl | girl's heart | to girl's friend | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
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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