Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 66
In great fear and rage the lady spurned him, and called to her women to bring her husband, asleep or awake.
Who acts: great fear, lady · What happens: rage, spurn, call, bring · To what, where: fear, women, husband · 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 (great fear, lady), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 fear | case |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fear | amod |
| 3 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rage | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fear | cc |
| 5 | rage | rage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spurned | nsubj |
| 8 | spurned | spurn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rage | ccomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 spurned | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 called | cc |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 spurned | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 women | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 women | nmod:poss |
| 15 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 called | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 bring | mark |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 called | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 husband | nmod:poss |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 asleep | punct |
| 21 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 husband | amod |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 awake | cc |
| 23 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 asleep | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | present | great fear | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | spurn | past | the lady | fear | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | lady's women | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive | lady's husband | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument husband=Destination |
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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