Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 74
Her face often expressed an abandonment of joy as she watched the children play, or laughed at their wise and witty sayings.
Who acts: face, children · What happens: express, watch, play, laugh, abandon, say · To what, where: abandonment, wise sayings, joy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (face, children), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expressed | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 expressed | advmod |
| 4 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 abandonment | det |
| 6 | abandonment | abandonment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expressed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 joy | case |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 abandonment | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 watched | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 watched | nsubj |
| 11 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 expressed | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 children | det |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 play | nsubj |
| 14 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 watched | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 laughed | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 laughed | cc |
| 17 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 expressed | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 sayings | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sayings | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sayings | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 witty | cc |
| 22 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wise | conj |
| 23 | sayings | saying | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 laughed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | express | past | Miss's face | a abandonment of joy | often property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abandonment=Theme | |||
| 2 | watch | past | face | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | play | present | the children | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | laugh | past | Miss's face not said here | children's wise sayings | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | abandon | joy | nom abandonment «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | say | children = child | nom saying «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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