Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 35

“You are annoying my lady, you certainly lack all marks of the superior man,” and with that she threw a handful of incense ashes in his eyes, and taking her lady by the hand, they ran to the chair and told the chairmen to go home at once as fast as possible.

Who acts: You, woman, marks · What happens: annoy, lack, throw, take, run, tell · To what, where: lady, marks, handful, eyes, chairmen, superior man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, woman, marks), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 annoying	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 annoying	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 annoying	aux
4	annoying	annoy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 ran	ccomp
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lady	nmod:poss
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 annoying	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lack	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 lack	nsubj
9	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	10 lack	advmod
10	lack	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 annoying	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 marks	det
12	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lack	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 man	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	superior	superior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marks	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lack	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 lack	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 threw	cc
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 threw	obl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 threw	nsubj
23	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 annoying	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 handful	det
25	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 threw	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 ashes	case
27	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ashes	compound
28	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 handful	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 eyes	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 eyes	nmod:poss
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 threw	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 taking	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 taking	cc
34	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 annoying	conj
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 lady	nmod:poss
36	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 taking	obj
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 hand	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 hand	det
39	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 taking	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 annoying	punct
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 ran	nsubj
42	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 chair	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 chair	det
45	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 ran	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 told	cc
47	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 ran	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 chairmen	det
49	chairmen	chairman	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 told	iobj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 go	mark
51	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 told	xcomp
52	home	home	ADV	_	51 go	advmod
53	at	at	ADP	_	54 once	case
54	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	51 go	obl
55	as	as	ADV	_	56 fast	advmod
56	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	51 go	advmod
57	as	as	SCONJ	_	58 possible	mark
58	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 fast	advcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	annoy in a quote	present · progressive	You	my lady				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lady=Experiencer
2	lack in a quote	present	you	all marks of the superior man			certainly property	tree rules
3	throw	past	woman	a handful of incense ashes		man's eyes	with that	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent handful=Theme in eye=Destination
4	take	gerund	You not said here		woman's lady		by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument lady=Destination
5	run	past	marks = mark				to the chair	tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	past	marks = mark not said here		the chairmen			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent chairman=Recipient clause=Topic
7	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	marks = mark not said here				fast, home property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
8	mark in a quote			the superior man				nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 35

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 35