Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 24
The hearts of the rough men were touched by her distress and sweet, pleading little face and the request was sent in to the palace.
Who acts: distress, Glory · What happens: touch, plead, send, distress · To what, where: hearts, little face, request, palace
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 (distress, Glory), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hearts | det |
| 2 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 men | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 men | det |
| 5 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 men | amod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hearts | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 touched | aux:pass |
| 8 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 distress | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 distress | nmod:poss |
| 11 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sweet | cc |
| 13 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 distress | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pleading | punct |
| 15 | pleading | plead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 touched | advcl |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 face | amod |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pleading | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sent | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 request | det |
| 20 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sent | aux:pass |
| 22 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 face | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · passive | Glory's distress | the hearts of the rough men | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | plead speech: request | gerund | Glory's distress not said here | little face | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | past · passive | the request | the palace | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in palace=Destination | ||||
| 4 | distress | Glory | nom distress «feeling 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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