Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 48

It was so delightful to sit there and hear all these sweet things of one of our schoolgirls.

Who acts: It · What happens: be, sit, hear · To what, where: sweet things

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 (It), 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	4 delightful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delightful	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 delightful	advmod
4	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sit	mark
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 delightful	csubj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sit	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hear	cc
9	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sit	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 things	det:predet
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 things	det
12	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 things	amod
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hear	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 things	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 schoolgirls	case
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 schoolgirls	nmod:poss
18	schoolgirls	schoolgirl	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delightful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	It			delightful property	tree rules
2	sit	to-infinitive			there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	infinitive		all sweet things of one of our schoolgirls			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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 48

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 48