Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 26
With trembling hands and quivering lips, but shining eyes, she knelt before her Emperor.
Who acts: Glory · What happens: tremble, quiver, shine, kneel · To what, where: hands, lips, eyes
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 (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 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 2 trembling | mark |
| 2 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 knelt | advcl |
| 3 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trembling | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 quivering | cc |
| 5 | quivering | quiver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 trembling | conj |
| 6 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 quivering | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shining | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 shining | cc |
| 9 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 trembling | conj |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shining | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 trembling | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knelt | nsubj |
| 13 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 Emperor | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Emperor | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 knelt | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 knelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | Glory not said here | hands | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | quiver | gerund | Glory not said here | lips | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lip=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | Glory not said here | eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kneel | past | Glory | before Glory's Emperor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before emperor=Location |
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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