Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 20

All of these words were accompanied with so many knocks of the little head on the bricks at his feet that the father gave way and told her mother and the servants to get her and her nurse ready for the journey.

Who acts: many knocks, father, little head · What happens: accompany, give, tell, get, knock · To what, where: All, way, mother, offence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Orient. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many knocks, father, little head), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 accompanied	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 words	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 All	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 accompanied	aux:pass
6	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 knocks	case
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 many	advmod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knocks	amod
10	knocks	knock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 accompanied	obl:agent
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 head	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 head	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 head	amod
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knocks	nmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 bricks	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bricks	det
17	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 head	nmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 feet	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 feet	nmod:poss
20	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 accompanied	obl:agent
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 gave	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 father	det
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gave	nsubj
24	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 accompanied	advcl
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gave	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 told	cc
27	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 gave	conj
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mother	nmod:poss
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 told	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 servants	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 servants	det
32	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 mother	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 get	mark
34	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 told	ccomp
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 get	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 nurse	cc
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 nurse	nmod:poss
38	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 her	conj
39	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 get	xcomp
40	for	for	ADP	_	42 journey	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 journey	det
42	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 ready	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 accompanied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	accompany	past · passive	many knocks of the little head on the bricks	All of this words		father's feet obl:agent	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	give	past	the father	way			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the father not said here		offence's mother and the servants		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
4	get not said to happen	to-infinitive		offence		ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	knock		the little head on the bricks				nom knock «event intransitive»: of=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 20

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 20