Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 103

As she had advisers on every hand, in this also she seized her opportunity to rely upon them, and let them feel their importance to her as counsellors.

Who acts: Russell, this, advisers · What happens: have, seize, rely, let, feel · To what, where: advisers, hand, opportunity, importance, 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 (Russell, this, advisers), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	advisers	adviser	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hand	det
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seized	punct
9	in	in	SCONJ	_	13 seized	mark
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 seized	nsubj
11	also	also	ADV	_	13 seized	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seized	nsubj
13	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 opportunity	nmod:poss
15	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seized	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 rely	mark
17	rely	rely	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 opportunity	acl
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rely	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 let	cc
22	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seized	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 importance	nmod:poss
26	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 feel	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 feel	obl
29	as	as	ADP	_	30 counsellors	case
30	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 feel	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Russell	advisers		every hand		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adviser=Patient
2	seize	past	this	Russell's opportunity			Russell nsubj	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme
3	rely	to-infinitive	this not said here	Russell's opportunity not said here			upon advisers = adviser	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	let	infinitive	this not said here	advisers = adviser				tree rules
5	feel	infinitive	advisers = adviser not said here	advisers's importance	Russell		as counsellors	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent importance=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, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 103

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 103