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title: With tears streaming from her eyes, and her beautiful face full of t… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: With tears streaming from her eyes, and her beautiful face full of trouble, she said, “Alas! alas! Who acts: tears, woman. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 94

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With tears streaming from her eyes, and her beautiful face full of trouble, she said, “Alas! alas!

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**Who acts:** tears, woman · **What happens:** stream, say · **To what, where:** eyes, alas · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (tears, woman), 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:pg75089:17:94
# text = With tears streaming from her eyes, and her beautiful face full of trouble, she said, “Alas! alas!
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
3	streaming	stream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
22	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stream** | gerund | tears and woman's beautiful face *not said here* |  |  | woman's eyes |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from eye=Source |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman | alas |  |  |  | with tears and woman's beautiful face | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with tear=Manner |

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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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