Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 144

The servants had come to bring her, and he and her sister would only be happy when she came.

Who acts: servants, husband, Yü · What happens: come, bring, be · To what, where: Yü

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, husband, Yü), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 servants	det
2	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bring	mark
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bring	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 happy	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 happy	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 happy	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sister	cc
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sister	nmod:poss
13	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 he	conj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 happy	aux
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 happy	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 happy	cop
17	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 come	parataxis
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 came	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 happy	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	the servants			tree rules
2	bring	to-infinitive	the servants not said here	Yü		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
3	is	would	husband		happy property	tree rules
4	come	past	Yü			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 3, sentence 144

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 144