Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 36

I thought she would want to read all the time and so had my son burn her books.

Who acts: I, mother, son · What happens: think, want, read, have, burn · To what, where: son, books · 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 (I, mother, son), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 read	mark
7	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 read	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 had	advmod
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 son	nmod:poss
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 books	nmod:poss
18	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 burn	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	want	would	mother			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	read not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here		time	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	I not said here	my son		tree rules
5	burn	infinitive	my son not said here	mother's books		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent book=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 36