Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 13

Hither little Ting Lang bent his steps, and as he was running along he pushed against a small boy who fell down, and at once began in great anger to revile Ting Lang’s father.

Who acts: little Ting, Ting, small boy · What happens: bend, run along, push, fall down, begin, revile · To what, where: steps, great anger, father

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Ting, Ting, small boy), 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	Hither	hither	ADV	_	3 Ting	advmod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Ting	amod
3	Ting	Ting	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bent	nsubj
4	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Ting	flat
5	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 steps	nmod:poss
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bent	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 running	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 running	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 running	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 running	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 running	aux
13	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 bent	advcl
14	along	along	ADP	_	16 pushed	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pushed	nsubj
16	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 running	advcl
17	against	against	ADP	_	20 boy	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 boy	det
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boy	amod
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pushed	obl
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 boy	acl:relcl
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 fell	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 began	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 began	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 once	case
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 began	obl
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bent	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 anger	case
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 anger	amod
31	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 began	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 revile	mark
33	revile	revile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
34	Ting	Ting	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 father	nmod:poss
35	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Ting	flat
36	’s	's	PART	_	34 Ting	case
37	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 revile	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bend	past	little Ting	Ting's steps			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent step=Material
2	run along	past · progressive	Ting				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	push	past	Ting			against a small boy	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against boy=Theme
4	fall down	past	a small boy			down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	begin	past	little Ting not said here		great anger		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	revile	to-infinitive	little Ting not said here	Ting's father			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme
7	step		Ting				nom step «act transitive»: poss=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, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 13

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 13