Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 101

So was her love of beauty, and one can never think of her without some flower or picture to attract the eye and give a touch of brightness to the room in which she sat. On these country trips she wore the native dress and her dark eyes and hair made her seem more at home in it than many Western women.

Who acts: one, sat., Russell, dark eyes · What happens: be, not think, attract, give, trip, wear · To what, where: love, eye, touch, room, native dress, Russell

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, sat., Russell, dark eyes), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 love	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 love	cop
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 love	nmod:poss
4	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 beauty	case
6	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 love	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 think	cc
9	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 think	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 think	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 think	advmod
12	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 love	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 flower	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 flower	nmod:poss
15	without	without	ADP	_	17 flower	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 flower	det
17	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 think	obl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 picture	cc
19	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flower	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 attract	mark
21	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 think	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 eye	det
23	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 attract	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 give	cc
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 attract	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 touch	det
27	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 brightness	case
29	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 touch	nmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 room	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 room	det
32	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 trips	obl
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 sat.	nsubj
36	sat.	Saturday	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	40 trips	nsubj
37	On	on	ADP	_	39 country	case
38	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	39 country	det
39	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sat.	nmod
40	trips	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 room	parataxis
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 wore	nsubj
42	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 trips	ccomp
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 dress	det
44	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 dress	amod
45	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 wore	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 made	cc
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 eyes	nmod:poss
48	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 eyes	amod
49	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 made	nsubj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 hair	cc
51	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 eyes	conj
52	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 wore	conj
53	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 made	obj
54	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 made	xcomp
55	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	54 seem	obj
56	at	at	ADP	_	57 home	case
57	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 more	obl
58	in	in	ADP	_	59 it	case
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 home	nmod
60	than	than	ADP	_	63 women	case
61	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 women	amod
62	Western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 women	amod
63	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 more	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 love	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Russell's love			of beauty; Russell nmod:poss	tree rules
2	not think speech: other	can	one				of Russell's flower or picture	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	attract	to-infinitive	one not said here	the eye				vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4	give	infinitive	one not said here	a touch of brightness	the room			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent touch=Theme to room=Recipient
5	trip	present	sat. Russell on this country			the room		tree rules
6	wear	past	Russell	the native dress				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
7	make	past	Russell's dark eyes and hair	Russell				tree rules
8	seem	infinitive	Russell not said here	more at home in eye than many Western women				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Attribute
9	touch			brightness				nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient

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, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 101

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 101