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title: She took no note of the lapse either of time or strength when, in he… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She took no note of the lapse either of time or strength when, in her city home, she entertained guests of high or low degree with equal courtesy and charm. Who acts: Miss. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 17

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She took no note of the lapse either of time or strength when, in her city home, she entertained guests of high or low degree with equal courtesy and charm.

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**Who acts:** Miss · **What happens:** take, entertain, note · **To what, where:** note, city, guests, lapse

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miss), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75089:1:17
# text = She took no note of the lapse either of time or strength when, in her city home, she entertained guests of high or low degree with equal courtesy and charm.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lapse	lapse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
18	home	home	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	entertained	entertain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Miss | no note of the lapse |  | Miss's city |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent note=Value in city=Location |
| 2 | **entertain** | past | Miss | guests of high degree |  |  |  | with equal courtesy and charm | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus guest=Experiencer |
| 3 | **note** |  |  | the lapse |  |  |  |  | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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