Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 102
She was careful so to select and combine colours as to be attractive to Chinese tastes.
Who acts: Russell · What happens: be, select, combine · To what, where: colours
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 (Russell), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 careful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 careful | cop |
| 3 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 select | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 select | case |
| 6 | select | select | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 careful | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 combine | cc |
| 8 | combine | combine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 select | conj |
| 9 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 combine | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 attractive | mark |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 attractive | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 attractive | cop |
| 13 | attractive | attractive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 combine | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 tastes | case |
| 15 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tastes | amod |
| 16 | tastes | taste | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 attractive | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Russell | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | select | infinitive | Russell not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | combine | infinitive | Russell not said here | colours | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | Russell not said here | to Chinese tastes; attractive property | tree rules |
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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