Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 8

She was a good student and during the years of her school life her teachers came to see there was in her the making of a strong, true woman.

Who acts: girl, teachers, strong true woman · What happens: be, come, see, make · To what, where: good student, making · 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 (girl, teachers, strong true woman), 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	5 student	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 student	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 student	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 student	amod
5	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 years	cc
7	during	during	ADP	_	9 years	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 years	det
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 student	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 life	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 life	nmod:poss
12	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 life	compound
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 years	nmod
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 teachers	nmod:poss
15	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 student	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 came	advcl
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 see	ccomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 making	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 making	nmod:poss
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 making	det
24	making	making	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 was	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	30 woman	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 woman	det
27	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 woman	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 strong	punct
29	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 woman	amod
30	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 making	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 student	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	girl	a good student and the years of girl's school life		tree rules
2	come	past	girl's teachers	a good student and the years of girl's school life not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location student=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	girl's teachers not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	be	past			girl's making of a strong true woman; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in making=Location
5	make		a strong true woman			nom making «act intransitive»: of=agent

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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 8