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title: The beautiful Yü Yüch Ying saw through the plan and disposed of the… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The beautiful Yü Yüch Ying saw through the plan and disposed of the place at once for a small sum of money and, taking one loyal, good serving-woman, she sought her father. Who acts: beautiful Yüch Ying, one, Ying. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of O
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 75

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The beautiful Yü Yüch Ying saw through the plan and disposed of the place at once for a small sum of money and, taking one loyal, good serving-woman, she sought her father.

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**Who acts:** beautiful Yüch Ying, one, Ying · **What happens:** see, dispose, take, woman, seek, sum · **To what, where:** plan, father, money

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful Yüch Ying, one, Ying), 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:pg75089:17:75
# text = The beautiful Yü Yüch Ying saw through the plan and disposed of the place at once for a small sum of money and, taking one loyal, good serving-woman, she sought her father.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	Yü	Yü	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Yüch	Yüch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Ying	Ying	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	disposed	dispose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nsubj	_	_
27	loyal	loyal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	serving	serving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the beautiful Yüch Ying |  |  | the plan |  | for a small sum of money | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **dispose** | participle | the beautiful Yüch Ying *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the place | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | the beautiful Yüch Ying *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **woman** |  | one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **seek** | past | Ying | Ying's father |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme |
| 6 | **sum** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession 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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