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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 17

She was greatly interested in this child-singer as she had heard him leading the workmen, and what was her horror when she saw one of her servants go up and strike the child a sharp blow, knocking him from the bench on which he was standing.

Who acts: face, one, Ting · What happens: be, hear, lead, see, go up, strike · To what, where: child singer, Ting, workmen, horror, child, bench · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (face, one, Ting), 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

nsubjcopadvmodcasedetcompoundpunctoblmarknsubjauxadvclobjadvcldetobjpunctccnsubjcopnmod:possconjadvmodnsubjacl:relclnsubjcasenmod:possnmodccompadvmodccconjdetobjdetamodobjpunctadvclobjcasedetoblcaseoblnsubjauxacl:relclpunctrootShePRONwasAUXgreatlyADVinterestedADJinADPthisDETchildNOUN-PUNCTsingerNOUNasSCONJshePRONhadAUXheardVERBhimPRONleadingVERBtheDETworkmenNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhatPRONwasAUXherPRONhorrorNOUNwhenADVshePRONsawVERBoneNUMofADPherPRONservantsNOUNgoVERBupADVandCCONJstrikeVERBtheDETchildNOUNaDETsharpADJblowNOUN,PUNCTknockingVERBhimPRONfromADPtheDETbenchNOUNonADPwhichPRONhePRONwasAUXstandingVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 interestednsubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 interestedcop
3greatlygreatlyADV_4 interestedadvmod
4interestedinterestedADJDegree=Posrootroot
5ininADP_9 singercase
6thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem9 singerdet
7childchildNOUNNumber=Sing9 singercompound
8--PUNCT_7 childpunct
9singersingerNOUNNumber=Sing4 interestedobl
10asasSCONJ_13 heardmark
11sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 heardnsubj
12hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 heardaux
13heardhearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part4 interestedadvcl
14himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 heardobj
15leadingleadVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part13 heardadvcl
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 workmendet
17workmenworkmanNOUNNumber=Plur15 leadingobj
18,,PUNCT_23 horrorpunct
19andandCCONJ_23 horrorcc
20whatwhatPRONPronType=Int23 horrornsubj
21wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 horrorcop
22herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 horrornmod:poss
23horrorhorrorNOUNNumber=Sing4 interestedconj
24whenwhenADVPronType=Int26 sawadvmod
25sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 sawnsubj
26sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 horroracl:relcl
27oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card31 gonsubj
28ofofADP_30 servantscase
29herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 servantsnmod:poss
30servantsservantNOUNNumber=Plur27 onenmod
31gogoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 sawccomp
32upupADV_31 goadvmod
33andandCCONJ_34 strikecc
34strikestrikeVERBVerbForm=Inf31 goconj
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 childdet
36childchildNOUNNumber=Sing34 strikeobj
37aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art39 blowdet
38sharpsharpADJDegree=Pos39 blowamod
39blowblowNOUNNumber=Sing34 strikeobj
40,,PUNCT_41 knockingpunct
41knockingknockVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part34 strikeadvcl
42himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 knockingobj
43fromfromADP_45 benchcase
44thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art45 benchdet
45benchbenchNOUNNumber=Sing41 knockingobl
46ononADP_47 whichcase
47whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel50 standingobl
48hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs50 standingnsubj
49wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin50 standingaux
50standingstandVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part45 benchacl:relcl
51..PUNCT_4 interestedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastfacethis child singergreatly, interested propertytree rules
2hearpast · perfectfaceTingvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3leadgerundface not said herethe workmenvn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent workman=Theme
4is apastface's horrorwhat nsubj; face nmod:posstree rules
5seepastfacevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6go uppresentone of face's servantsvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7strikeinfinitiveone of face's servants not said herethe childa sharp blow objvn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent child=Patient blow=Result
8knockgerundone of face's servants not said hereTingfrom the benchvn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient from bench=Co-Patient
9standpast · progressiveTingthe benchvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location

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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