Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 10

One day, when Han was only six years old, he and another little boy were playing ball, when the ball came down into the deep hole of the millstones.

Who acts: Han, ball · What happens: be, play, come down · To what, where: ball, deep hole

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Han, ball), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 old	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 old	mark
5	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 old	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 old	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 six	advmod
8	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 old	obl:unmarked
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 playing	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 playing	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 boy	cc
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 boy	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 he	conj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 playing	aux
18	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 old	advcl
19	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 playing	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 came	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ball	det
23	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 old	conj
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 came	advmod
26	into	into	ADP	_	29 hole	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hole	det
28	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hole	amod
29	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 millstones	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 millstones	det
32	millstones	millstone	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hole	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Han			day; year	old property	tree rules
2	play	past · progressive	Han	ball				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
3	come down	past	the ball		the deep hole of the millstones		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hole=Initial_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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 10

The tree

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 10