Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 30

Little did either of us dream how short the earthly joy was to be, or how soon the Heavenly reward was to begin.

Who acts: Little, either, Heavenly reward · What happens: do, dream, begin

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 (Little, either, Heavenly reward), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	6 dream	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 us	case
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 either	nmod
6	dream	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 short	advmod
8	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dream	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 joy	det
10	earthly	earthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 joy	amod
11	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 short	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 be	cop
13	to	to	PART	_	14 be	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 short	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 begin	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 begin	cc
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 soon	advmod
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 begin	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 reward	det
20	Heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 reward	amod
21	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 begin	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 begin	aux
23	to	to	PART	_	24 begin	mark
24	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dream	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	Little		tree rules
2	dream	present	either of us	short property	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past	the Heavenly reward	soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 30

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 30