Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 19

Han Hsin was presented to his Prince by his teachers as worthy of holding such a position, but when the Prince and his officers saw how small he was, they laughed and said, “We do not want a child,” and would not accept his services.

Who acts: teachers, Prince, officers, We · What happens: present, hold, see, be, laugh, say · To what, where: Han, Prince, position, child, services · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (teachers, Prince, officers, We), 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	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 presented	nsubj:pass
2	Hsin	Hsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Han	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 presented	aux:pass
4	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Prince	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 Prince	nmod:poss
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 presented	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 teachers	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 teachers	nmod:poss
10	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 presented	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 worthy	case
12	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 presented	obl
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 holding	mark
14	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 worthy	advcl
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 position	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 position	det
17	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 holding	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 saw	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 saw	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Prince	det
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 saw	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 officers	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 officers	nmod:poss
25	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 Prince	conj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 presented	conj
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 small	advmod
28	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 saw	ccomp
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 small	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 small	cop
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 laughed	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 laughed	nsubj
33	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 presented	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 said	cc
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 laughed	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 want	punct
37	“	"	PUNCT	_	41 want	punct
38	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 want	nsubj
39	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 want	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 want	advmod
41	want	want	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 said	ccomp
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 child	det
43	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 want	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 want	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	41 want	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 accept	cc
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 accept	aux
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 accept	advmod
49	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 laughed	conj
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 services	nmod:poss
51	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 accept	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 presented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	present	past · passive	Han's teachers	Han	Han's Prince	as worthy	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to prince=Recipient
2	hold	gerund	Han's teachers not said here	such position			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme
3	see	past	the Prince and prince's officers				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	prince			small property	tree rules
5	laugh	past	officers = officer				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	past	officers = officer not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not want in a quote	present · do-support	We	a child			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot child=Theme
8	not accept	would	officers = officer not said here	prince's services			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme
9	service		prince				nom service «act 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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 19

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 19