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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 46

I see, indeed, you are not a child,” and leading him into the house, she told him the sad, sad story from first to last, showed him the priceless keepsakes.

Who acts: I, you, mother, sad sad story · What happens: see, not be, lead, tell, last, show · To what, where: child, house, sad sad story, priceless keepsakes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, you, mother, sad sad story), 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

nsubjpunctadvmodpunctnsubjcopadvmoddetoblpunctpunctccconjobjcasedetoblpunctnsubjparataxisiobjdetamodpunctamodobjmarkadvmodcaseaclpunctconjiobjdetamodobjpunctrootIPRONseeVERB,PUNCTindeedADV,PUNCTyouPRONareAUXnotPARTaDETchildNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCTandCCONJleadingVERBhimPRONintoADPtheDEThouseNOUN,PUNCTshePRONtoldVERBhimPRONtheDETsadADJ,PUNCTsadADJstoryNOUNfromSCONJfirstADVtoADPlastVERB,PUNCTshowedVERBhimPRONtheDETpricelessADJkeepsakesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs2 seensubj
2seeseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3,,PUNCT_2 seepunct
4indeedindeedADV_2 seeadvmod
5,,PUNCT_10 childpunct
6youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs10 childnsubj
7arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 childcop
8notnotPARTPolarity=Neg10 childadvmod
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 childdet
10childchildNOUNNumber=Sing2 seeobl
11,,PUNCT_10 childpunct
12”"PUNCT_10 childpunct
13andandCCONJ_14 leadingcc
14leadingleadVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 childconj
15himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 leadingobj
16intointoADP_18 housecase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 housedet
18househouseNOUNNumber=Sing14 leadingobl
19,,PUNCT_21 toldpunct
20sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 toldnsubj
21toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 seeparataxis
22himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 toldiobj
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 storydet
24sadsadADJDegree=Pos27 storyamod
25,,PUNCT_24 sadpunct
26sadsadADJDegree=Pos27 storyamod
27storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing21 toldobj
28fromfromSCONJ_31 lastmark
29firstfirstADVNumForm=Word NumType=Ord31 lastadvmod
30totoADP_31 lastcase
31lastlastVERBVerbForm=Inf27 storyacl
32,,PUNCT_33 showedpunct
33showedshowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 toldconj
34himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 showediobj
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 keepsakesdet
36pricelesspricelessADJDegree=Pos37 keepsakesamod
37keepsakeskeepsakeNOUNNumber=Plur33 showedobj
38..PUNCT_2 seepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepresentIindeed propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2not is apresentyoua childtree rules
3lead in a quotegerundyou not said herechildthe housevn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into house=Destination
4tell speech: assert in a quotepastmotherthe sad sad storychildvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
5last in a quoteinfinitivethe sad sad story not said herefirst propertyvn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
6show in a quotepastmother not said herethe priceless keepsakeschildvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient keepsake=Topic

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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