Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 28

She talked of her school life, and the comfort she had as she recalled what she had learned.

Who acts: heart, comfort · What happens: talk, have, recall, learn

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 (heart, comfort), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 life	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 life	nmod:poss
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 life	compound
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 comfort	det
10	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	conj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 recalled	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 recalled	nsubj
15	recalled	recall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	ccomp
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 learned	obj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 learned	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 learned	aux
19	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 recalled	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	talk	past	heart	of heart's school life	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	the comfort	heart nsubj	tree rules
3	recall	past	heart		tree rules
4	learn	past · perfect	heart	what obj	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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, Literary Glory, sentence 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 28