Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 143
Thus she put out her hand and took the hand of the younger boy, and together they wept.
Who acts: Lady, loneliness · What happens: put out, take, weep · To what, where: hand
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady, loneliness), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hand | det |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 boy | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 13 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 boy | amod |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hand | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wept | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wept | cc |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 wept | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wept | nsubj |
| 19 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | past | Lady | Lady's hand | thus property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | |||
| 2 | take | past | Lady not said here | the hand of the younger boy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | loneliness | together property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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