Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 132
They asked for “Lady Yü,” which much surprised her neighbours.
Who acts: servants · What happens: ask, surprise · To what, where: neighbours
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Lady | case |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lady | punct |
| 5 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obl |
| 6 | Yü | Yü | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lady | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 surprised | obj |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 surprised | advmod |
| 11 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 13 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 surprised | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | servants = servant | for Lady | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | surprise | past | lady's neighbours | which obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer neighbour=Result |
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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