Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 10
How we revelled in her pretty clothes, so dainty and becoming—so fit.
Who acts: we · What happens: revell, become · To what, where: pretty clothes
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 revelled | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 revelled | nsubj |
| 3 | revelled | revell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 clothes | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clothes | amod |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 revelled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dainty | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 dainty | advmod |
| 10 | dainty | dainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clothes | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 becoming | cc |
| 12 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 dainty | conj |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 fit | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 fit | advmod |
| 15 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 revelled | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 revelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | revell | past | we | Peking's pretty clothes and dainty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | gerund | we not said here | 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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