Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 29

I remember her telling me that from her early childhood she loved no stories so well as those of foreign missionaries, and that she hoped, even when a little girl, that some day she might become one.

Who acts: I, sum, day · What happens: remember, tell, love, hope, become · To what, where: sum, that, me, early childhood, stories · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, sum, day), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 remember	nsubj
2	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remember	obj
4	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 remember	xcomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 telling	iobj
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 telling	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 childhood	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 childhood	nmod:poss
9	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 childhood	amod
10	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 telling	obl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 loved	nsubj
12	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 childhood	acl:relcl
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 stories	det
14	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 loved	obj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 well	advmod
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 loved	advmod
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 those	case
18	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 well	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 missionaries	case
20	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 missionaries	amod
21	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 those	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hoped	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hoped	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 hoped	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hoped	nsubj
26	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remember	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 girl	punct
28	even	even	ADV	_	32 girl	advmod
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 girl	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 girl	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 girl	amod
32	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hoped	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 become	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 become	mark
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 day	det
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 become	nsubj
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 become	nsubj
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 become	aux
39	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 remember	parataxis
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 become	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	remember	present	I	sum				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	I not said here	that	me	sum's early childhood		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient that=Topic
3	love	past	sum	no stories			well property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
4	hope	past	sum				a little girl advcl	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	become	might	some day				sum nsubj; one xcomp	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 29

The tree

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 29